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Pseudo-Dipeptide Bearing alpha,alpha-Difluoromethyl Ketone Moiety as Electrophilic Warhead with Activity against Coronaviruses #MMPMID33573283
Citarella A; Gentile D; Rescifina A; Piperno A; Mognetti B; Gribaudo G; Sciortino MT; Holzer W; Pace V; Micale N
Int J Mol Sci 2021[Jan]; 22 (3): ä PMID33573283show ga
The synthesis of alpha-fluorinated methyl ketones has always been challenging. New methods based on the homologation chemistry via nucleophilic halocarbenoid transfer, carried out recently in our labs, allowed us to design and synthesize a target-directed dipeptidyl alpha,alpha-difluoromethyl ketone (DFMK) 8 as a potential antiviral agent with activity against human coronaviruses. The ability of the newly synthesized compound to inhibit viral replication was evaluated by a viral cytopathic effect (CPE)-based assay performed on MCR5 cells infected with one of the four human coronaviruses associated with respiratory distress, i.e., hCoV-229E, showing antiproliferative activity in the micromolar range (EC(50) = 12.9 +/- 1.22 microM), with a very low cytotoxicity profile (CC(50) = 170 +/- 3.79 microM, 307 +/- 11.63 microM, and 174 +/- 7.6 microM for A549, human embryonic lung fibroblasts (HELFs), and MRC5 cells, respectively). Docking and molecular dynamics simulations studies indicated that 8 efficaciously binds to the intended target hCoV-229E main protease (M(pro)). Moreover, due to the high similarity between hCoV-229E M(pro) and SARS-CoV-2 M(pro), we also performed the in silico analysis towards the second target, which showed results comparable to those obtained for hCoV-229E M(pro) and promising in terms of energy of binding and docking pose.
|A549 Cells[MESH]
|Antiviral Agents/*chemistry/pharmacology[MESH]
|Binding Sites[MESH]
|COVID-19/pathology/virology[MESH]
|Cell Line[MESH]
|Coronavirus 229E, Human/*metabolism[MESH]
|Coronavirus M Proteins/chemistry/metabolism[MESH]