Antiviral Drugs: An Overview
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Antiviral Drugs: An Overview
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Antivirals, why?
• Vaccines are effective at prevention but what about the patient that is already infected?
• Viruses can be very swift and deadly and a quick method of curing a patient is needed
• The market is huge and a remedy would bring about solutions to viral infections such as: Influenza, HIV, Herpes, Hepatitis B, Smallpox, Ebola, Rabies, etc.
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Antiviral Drugs: An Overview
Methods of Attack
27 MAR 2007
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Methods of Attack
• Viruses still need more study to understand their structure and life cycle
• The most effective methods so far can only attack by preventing the virus from attaching to the cell and from leaving the cell
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Drug Development
• Viruses are now becoming better understood and several viral genomes have been properly mapped. Scientists are now looking for the best drug targets
• The main point of interest is any viral protein that the host organism does not normally produce
• Once these viral proteins are identified they are tested using a large scale screening process to test for effectiveness
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Drug Development
• Antiviral candidates are tested in mass quantities
• Antiviral drugs generally have strange side effects and a high toxicity
• As with any pathogenic drug, Viruses evolve and develop immunity. Thus the need for new drugs always exists
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Drug DevelopmentThere are several known methods that the makers of
Antiviral drugs are looking at, including:• Prevention of Viral Entry• Targeting the RNA/DNA replication in the cell• Targeting the transcriptase factors for Viral DNA• Destroying Viral proteases so that viral proteins are
not cut and rearranged in optimal order• Stopping the release of the mature viruses from
the host cell
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Drug ExamplesTamiflu-• Recently sold to 40 countries
to battle avian flu• Prevents the mature viruses
from leaving the cell• It is a neuraminidase inhibitor,
it works on both influenza A and B
• Neuraminidase is an enzyme found on the virus which cleaves sialic acid from cell membrane, leading to a more effective release of viruses. mechanism
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27 MAR 2007 Antiviral Drugs: An Overview
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Approaches to treat viral diseases
• As viruses are intracellular parasites (utilizing host machinery), there are very few unique targets in viruses– This distinguishes viruses from other infectious organisms: (Bacteria, protozoa, fungi)
• Challenges in designing anti-viral treatments:– Host cell must be immune to treatment! (to limit off-target toxicity)– Viral infection disease symptoms often associated with latency period
• General anti-viral strategies are to inhibit:– Viral attachment to host cell, penetration, and uncoating– Viral enzymes:
• DNA/RNA polymerases, etc• Reverse transcriptases, proteases, etc.
– Host expression of viral proteins– Assembly of viral proteins– Release of virus from cell surface membranes
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Example 1: Targeting early stages of viral infection
• Overview– Drug approaches that target the uncoating of the
influenza viral particle• Amantadine HCl• Rimantidine HCl
– Interferon:• Signal-transducing proteins that interfere with viral
protein expression
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