Structure-guided design of potent coronavirus inhibitors with a 2-pyrrolidone scaffold: Biochemical, crystallographic, and virological studies
Dampalla, Chamandi S. Kim, Yunjeong Zabiegala, Alexandria Howard, Dennis Nguyen, Harry Nhat Madden, Trent K. Thurman, Hayden A. Cooper, Anne Liu, Lijun Battaile, Kevin P.
Dampalla, Chamandi S.
Kim, Yunjeong
Zabiegala, Alexandria
Howard, Dennis
Nguyen, Harry Nhat
Madden, Trent K.
Thurman, Hayden A.
Cooper, Anne
Liu, Lijun
Battaile, Kevin P.
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Dampalla, C.S., Kim, Y., Zabiegala, A., Howard, D.J., Nguyen, H.N., Madden, T.K., Thurman, H.A., Cooper, A., Liu, L., Battaile, K.P., Lovell, S., Chang, K.-O., Groutas, W.C. Structure-guided design of potent coronavirus inhibitors with a 2-pyrrolidone scaffold: Biochemical, crystallographic, and virological studies. (2024). Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00551
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Zoonotic coronaviruses are known to produce severe infections in humans and have been the cause of significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 was the largest and latest contributor of fatal cases, even though MERS-CoV has the highest case-fatality ratio among zoonotic coronaviruses. These infections pose a high risk to public health worldwide warranting efforts for the expeditious discovery of antivirals. Hence, we hereby describe a novel series of inhibitors of coronavirus 3CL$^{pro}$ embodying an N-substituted 2-pyrrolidone scaffold envisaged to exploit favorable interactions with the S3-S4 subsites and connected to an invariant Leu-Gln P2-P1 recognition element. Several inhibitors showed nanomolar antiviral activity in enzyme and cell-based assays, with no significant cytotoxicity. High-resolution crystal structures of inhibitors bound to the 3CL$^{pro}$ were determined to probe and identify the molecular determinants associated with binding, to inform the structure-guided optimization of the inhibitors, and to confirm the mechanism of action of the inhibitors. © 2024 American Chemical Society.
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