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Journal Article
Seco-pregnane steroids target the subgenomic RNA of alphavirus-like RNA viruses
2007
Overview
Plants have evolved multiple mechanisms to selectively suppress pathogens by production of secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activities. Therefore, direct selections for antiviral compounds from plants can be used to identify new agents with potent antiviral activity but not toxic to hosts. Here, we provide evidence that a class of compounds, seco-pregnane steroid glaucogenin C and its monosugar-glycoside cynatratoside A of Strobilanthes cusia and three new pantasugar-glycosides of glaucogenin C of Cynanchum paniculatum, are effective and selective inhibitors to alphavirus-like positive-strand RNA viruses including plant-infecting tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and animal-infecting Sindbis virus (SINV), eastern equine encephalitis virus, and Getah virus, but not to other RNA or DNA viruses, yet they were not toxic to host cells. In vivo administration of the compounds protected BALB/c mice from lethal SINV infection without adverse effects on the mice. Using TMV and SINV as models, studies on the action mechanism revealed that the compounds predominantly suppress the expression of viral subgenomic RNA(s) without affecting the accumulation of viral genomic RNA. Our work suggested that the viral subgenomic RNA could be a new target for the discovery of antiviral drugs, and that seco-pregnane steroid and its four glycosides found in the two medicinal herbs have the potential for further development as antiviral agents against alphavirus-like positive-strand RNA viruses.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences,National Acad Sciences
Subject
/ Alphavirus Infections - drug therapy
/ Animals
/ Antiviral Agents - pharmacology
/ Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
/ Eastern equine encephalitis virus
/ Genomics
/ hamsters
/ Leaves
/ Mice
/ plant diseases and disorders
/ RNA
/ RNA, Viral - antagonists & inhibitors
/ Sindbis Virus - drug effects
/ Steroids
/ tobacco
/ Tobacco Mosaic Virus - drug effects
/ Virus Replication - drug effects
/ Viruses
