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Isopeptide Bond Bundling Superhelix for Designing Antivirals against Enveloped Viruses with Class I Fusion Proteins: A Review

Author(s): Heiya Na, Guodong Liang* and Wenqing Lai*

Volume 24, Issue 14, 2023

Published on: 18 April, 2023

Page: [1774 - 1783] Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/1389201024666230330083640

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Abstract

Viral infection has become one of the worst human lethal diseases. In recent years, major gains have been made in the research of peptide-based antiviral agents on account of the mechanism of viral membrane fusion, among which the peptide Enfuvirtide has been listed for the treatment of AIDS. This paper reviewed a new way to design peptide-based antiviral agents by "bundling" superhelix with isopeptide bonds to construct the active advanced structure. It can solve the problem that peptide precursor compounds derived from the natural sequence of viral envelope protein tend to aggregate and precipitate under physiological conditions and low activity and endow the peptide agents with the feature of thermal stability, protease stability and in vitro metabolic stability. This approach is also providing a new way of thinking for the research and development of broad-spectrum peptide-based antiviral agents.

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