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 …

Current trends and limitations in dengue antiviral research

JO Obi, H Gutiérrez-Barbosa, JV Chua… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease worldwide and affects
approximately 2.5 billion people living in over 100 countries. Increasing geographic …

Ivermectin is a potent inhibitor of flavivirus replication specifically targeting NS3 helicase activity: new prospects for an old drug

E Mastrangelo, M Pezzullo… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Infection with yellow fever virus (YFV), the prototypic mosquito-borne flavivirus,
causes severe febrile disease with haemorrhage, multi-organ failure and a high mortality …

Ten years of dengue drug discovery: progress and prospects

SP Lim, QY Wang, CG Noble, YL Chen, H Dong, B Zou… - Antiviral research, 2013 - Elsevier
To combat neglected diseases, the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases (NITD) was
founded in 2002 through private–public funding from Novartis and the Singapore Economic …

[HTML][HTML] West Nile virus epizootic in Germany, 2018

U Ziegler, R Lühken, M Keller, D Cadar… - Antiviral research, 2019 - Elsevier
The summer of 2018 in Germany was the second hottest and driest on record. These
generally extremely favorable climatic conditions most likely triggered the further expansion …

In Vitro Reconstitution of SARS-Coronavirus mRNA Cap Methylation

M Bouvet, C Debarnot, I Imbert, B Selisko… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) genome expression depends on the synthesis of a set of
mRNAs, which presumably are capped at their 5′ end and direct the synthesis of all viral …

Crystal structure and functional analysis of the SARS-coronavirus RNA cap 2′-O-methyltransferase nsp10/nsp16 complex

E Decroly, C Debarnot, F Ferron, M Bouvet… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Cellular and viral S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferases are involved in
many regulated processes such as metabolism, detoxification, signal transduction …

Insights into RNA synthesis, capping, and proofreading mechanisms of SARS-coronavirus

M Sevajol, L Subissi, E Decroly, B Canard, I Imbert - Virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
The successive emergence of highly pathogenic coronaviruses (CoVs) such as the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) in 2003 and the Middle East Respiratory …

The dengue virus NS5 protein as a target for drug discovery

SP Lim, CG Noble, PY Shi - Antiviral research, 2015 - Elsevier
The non-structural protein 5 (NS5) of flaviviruses is the most conserved amongst the viral
proteins. It is about 900 kDa and bears enzymatic activities that play vital roles in virus …

A crystal structure of the Dengue virus NS5 protein reveals a novel inter-domain interface essential for protein flexibility and virus replication

Y Zhao, TS Soh, J Zheng, KWK Chan, WW Phoo… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Flavivirus RNA replication occurs within a replication complex (RC) that assembles on ER
membranes and comprises both non-structural (NS) viral proteins and host cofactors. As the …