Enisamium inhibits sars-cov-2 rna synthesis

Stefano Elli; Denisa Bojkova; Marco Bechtel; Thomas Vial; David Boltz; Miguel Muzzio; Xinjian Peng; Federico Sala; Cesare Cosentino; Andrew Goy; Marco Guerrini; Lutz Müller; Jindrich Cinatl; Victor Margitich; Aartjan J.W. Te Velthuis

doi:10.3390/biomedicines9091254

Enisamium inhibits sars-cov-2 rna synthesis

Stefano Elli, Denisa Bojkova, Marco Bechtel, Thomas Vial, David Boltz, Miguel Muzzio, Xinjian Peng, Federico Sala, Cesare Cosentino, Andrew Goy, Marco Guerrini, Lutz Müller, Jindrich Cinatl, Victor Margitich, Aartjan J.W. Te Velthuis

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Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 causes a mild to severe respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While control of the SARS-CoV-2 spread partly depends on vaccine-induced or naturally acquired protective herd immunity, antiviral strategies are still needed to manage COVID-19. Enisamium is an inhibitor of influenza A and B viruses in cell culture and clinically approved in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In vitro, enisamium acts through metabolite VR17-04 and inhibits the activity of the influenza A virus RNA polymerase. Here we show that enisamium can inhibit coronavirus infections in NHBE and Caco-2 cells, and the activity of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerase in vitro. Docking and molecular dynamics simulations provide insight into the mechanism of action and indicate that enisamium metabolite VR17-04 prevents GTP and UTP incorporation. Overall, these results suggest that enisamium is an inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 RNA synthesis in vitro.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1254
Journal	Biomedicines
Volume	9
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9091254
State	Published - Sep 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Medicine (miscellaneous)
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Keywords

Amizon
COVID-19
FAV00A
Molecular dynamics simulation
RNA polymerase
SARS-CoV-2

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