Antiviral drug discovery: broad-spectrum drugs from nature

JP Martinez, F Sasse, M Brönstrup, J Diez… - Natural product …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to April 2014 The development of drugs with broad-spectrum antiviral activities
is a long pursued goal in drug discovery. It has been shown that blocking co-opted host …

Glycan shielding and modulation of hepatitis C virus neutralizing antibodies

M Lavie, X Hanoulle, J Dubuisson - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope glycoprotein heterodimer, E1E2, plays an essential role in
virus entry and assembly. Furthermore, due to their exposure at the surface of the virion …

Glycoproteomics-based signatures for tumor subtyping and clinical outcome prediction of high-grade serous ovarian cancer

J Pan, Y Hu, S Sun, L Chen, M Schnaubelt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inter-tumor heterogeneity is a result of genomic, transcriptional, translational, and post-
translational molecular features. To investigate the roles of protein glycosylation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Glycosylation, hypogammaglobulinemia, and resistance to viral infections

MA Sadat, S Moir, TW Chun, P Lusso… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Genetic defects in MOGS, the gene encoding mannosyl-oligosaccharide glucosidase (the
first enzyme in the processing pathway of N-linked oligosaccharide), cause the rare …

Host cell targets for unconventional antivirals against RNA viruses

VC Roa-Linares, M Escudero-Flórez… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recent COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of RNA-based viruses. The most
prominent members of this group are SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus), HIV (human …

Glycans instructing immunity: the emerging role of altered glycosylation in clinical immunology

JJ Lyons, JD Milner, SD Rosenzweig - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Protein glycosylation is an important epigenetic modifying process affecting expression,
localization, and function of numerous proteins required for normal immune function …

Antiviral therapies targeting host ER alpha-glucosidases: Current status and future directions

J Chang, TM Block, JT Guo - Antiviral research, 2013 - Elsevier
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident α-glucosidases I and II sequentially trim the three
terminal glucose moieties on N-linked glycans attached to nascent glycoproteins. These …

Glucosylceramide synthase inhibitors prevent replication of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus

EB Vitner, H Achdout, R Avraham, B Politi… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a major threat to global health. Vaccines are ideal solutions …

Iminosugars inhibit dengue virus production via inhibition of ER alpha-glucosidases—not glycolipid processing enzymes

AC Sayce, DS Alonzi, SS Killingbeck… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
It has long been thought that iminosugar antiviral activity is a function of inhibition of
endoplasmic reticulum-resident α-glucosidases, and on this basis, many iminosugars have …

Inhibiting cardiac autophagy suppresses Zika virus replication

X Ma, Y Jia, J Yuan, QJ Tang, WC Gao… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zika Virus (ZIKV) infection is a global threat. Other than the congenital neurological
disorders it causes, ZIKV infection has been reported to induce cardiac complications …