Tick-borne encephalitis in Europe and Russia: Review of pathogenesis, clinical features, therapy, and vaccines

D Ruzek, TA Županc, J Borde, A Chrdle, L Eyer… - Antiviral Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an illness caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV)
infection which is often limited to a febrile illness, but may lead to very aggressive …

The evolution of antiviral nucleoside analogues: A review for chemists and non-chemists. Part II: Complex modifications to the nucleoside scaffold

MK Yates, KL Seley-Radtke - Antiviral research, 2019 - Elsevier
This is the second of two invited articles reviewing the development of nucleoside analogue
antiviral drugs, written for a target audience of virologists and other non-chemists, as well as …

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 …

Nucleoside analogs as a rich source of antiviral agents active against arthropod-borne flaviviruses

L Eyer, R Nencka, E de Clercq… - Antiviral Chemistry …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Nucleoside analogs represent the largest class of small molecule-based antivirals, which
currently form the backbone of chemotherapy of chronic infections caused by HIV, hepatitis …

Nucleosides and emerging viruses: A new story

V Roy, LA Agrofoglio - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
With several US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs and high barriers to
resistance, nucleoside and nucleotide analogs remain the cornerstone of antiviral therapies …

Pyrrolo[2,3‐d]pyrimidine (7‐deazapurine) as a privileged scaffold in design of antitumor and antiviral nucleosides

P Perlíková, M Hocek - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deazapurine (pyrrolo [2, 3‐d] pyrimidine) nucleosides are important analogues of biogenic
purine nucleosides with diverse biological activities. Replacement of the N7 atom with a …

Advance of structural modification of nucleosides scaffold

X Lin, C Liang, L Zou, Y Yin, J Wang, D Chen… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
With Remdesivir being approved by FDA as a drug for the treatment of Corona Virus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19), nucleoside drugs have once again received widespread …

Remdesivir triphosphate can efficiently inhibit the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from various flaviviruses

E Konkolova, M Dejmek, H Hřebabecký, M Šála… - Antiviral Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Remdesivir was shown to inhibit RNA-dependent RNA-polymerases (RdRp) from distinct
viral families such as from Filoviridae (Ebola) and Coronaviridae (SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 …

Recent Advances in Molecular Mechanisms of Nucleoside Antivirals

PN Kamzeeva, AV Aralov, VA Alferova… - Current Issues in …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The search for new drugs has been greatly accelerated by the emergence of new viruses
and drug-resistant strains of known pathogens. Nucleoside analogues (NAs) are a …

Structure and function of Zika virus NS5 protein: perspectives for drug design

B Wang, S Thurmond, R Hai, J Song - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2018 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to the positive-sense single-stranded RNA-containing Flaviviridae
family. Its recent outbreak and association with human diseases (eg neurological disorders) …