Dengue: update on clinically relevant therapeutic strategies and vaccines

M Palanichamy Kala, AL St. John… - Current Treatment Options …, 2023 - Springer
Opinion statement Dengue viruses (DENV) continue to circulate worldwide, resulting in a
significant burden on human health. There are four antigenically distinct serotypes of DENV …

Broad-spectrum agents for flaviviral infections: dengue, Zika and beyond

V Boldescu, MAM Behnam, N Vasilakis… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
Infections with flaviviruses, such as dengue, West Nile virus and the recently re-emerging
Zika virus, are an increasing and probably lasting global risk. This Review summarizes and …

The flavivirus NS2B–NS3 protease–helicase as a target for antiviral drug development

D Luo, SG Vasudevan, J Lescar - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
The flavivirus NS3 protein is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum membrane via its
close interaction with the central hydrophilic region of the NS2B integral membrane protein …

Antiviral strategies targeting host factors and mechanisms obliging+ ssRNA viral pathogens

S Mahajan, S Choudhary, P Kumar, S Tomar - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, periodic recurrence of viral infections, and the
emergence of challenging variants has created an urgent need of alternative therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in antiviral drug development towards dengue virus

B Troost, JM Smit - Current opinion in virology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Evaluating drug efficacy, specificity and toxicity may help to develop an optimal
treatment regime for in vivo studies.•Measuring time to resolve viremia in vivo may help to …

Glycosylation of viral proteins: Implication in virus–host interaction and virulence

T Feng, J Zhang, Z Chen, W Pan, Z Chen, Y Yan, J Dai - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Glycans are among the most important cell molecular components. However, given their
structural diversity, their functions have not been fully explored. Glycosylation is a vital post …

α-and β-Glucosidase inhibitors: chemical structure and biological activity

EB de Melo, A da Silveira Gomes, I Carvalho - Tetrahedron, 2006 - Elsevier
Glycoside trimming enzymes are crucially important in a broad range of metabolic pathways,
including glycoprotein and glycolipid processing and carbohydrate digestion in the intestinal …

Dendritic‐cell‐specific ICAM3‐grabbing non‐integrin is essential for the productive infection of human dendritic cells by mosquito‐cell‐derived dengue viruses

E Navarro‐Sanchez, R Altmeyer, A Amara… - EMBO …, 2003 - embopress.org
Dengue virus (DV) is a mosquito‐borne flavivirus that causes haemorrhagic fever in
humans. DV primarily targets immature dendritic cells (DCs) after a bite by an infected …

Targeting glycosylation as a therapeutic approach

RA Dwek, TD Butters, FM Platt… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2002 - nature.com
Increased understanding of the role of protein-and lipid-linked carbohydrates in a wide
range of biological processes has led to interest in drugs that target the enzymes involved in …

Discovery of insect and human dengue virus host factors

OM Sessions, NJ Barrows, JA Souza-Neto… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Dengue fever is the most frequent arthropod-borne viral disease of humans, with almost half
of the world's population at risk of infection. The high prevalence, lack of an effective …