Stress proteins: the biological functions in virus infection, present and challenges for target-based antiviral drug development

Q Wan, D Song, H Li, M He - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020‏ - nature.com
Stress proteins (SPs) including heat-shock proteins (HSPs), RNA chaperones, and ER
associated stress proteins are molecular chaperones essential for cellular homeostasis. The …

Insights into structural and mechanistic features of viral IRES elements

E Martinez-Salas, R Francisco-Velilla… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements are cis-acting RNA regions that promote
internal initiation of protein synthesis using cap-independent mechanisms. However, distinct …

IRES-targeting small molecule inhibits enterovirus 71 replication via allosteric stabilization of a ternary complex

J Davila-Calderon, NN Patwardhan, LY Chiu… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract Enterovirus 71 (EV71) poses serious threats to human health, particularly in
Southeast Asia, and no drugs or vaccines are available. Previous work identified the stem …

Role of MAPK/MNK1 signaling in virus replication

R Kumar, N Khandelwal, R Thachamvally, BN Tripathi… - Virus research, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they heavily depend on the host cell machinery
to effectively replicate and produce new progeny virus particles. Following viral infection …

RNA–small-molecule interaction: challenging the “undruggable” tag

J Kaur, A Sharma, P Mundlia, V Sood… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
RNA targeting, specifically with small molecules, is a relatively new and rapidly emerging
avenue with the promise to expand the target space in the drug discovery field. From being …

Ribosomal control in RNA virus-infected cells

X Wang, J Zhu, D Zhang, G Liu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Viruses are strictly intracellular parasites requiring host cellular functions to complete their
reproduction cycle involving virus infection of host cell, viral genome replication, viral protein …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in anti-EV-A71 drug development research

S Wang, Z Pang, H Fan, Y Tong - Journal of Advanced Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Background Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is capable of causing hand, foot and mouth
disease (HFMD), which may lead to neurological sequelae and even death. As EV-A71 is …

Advances and breakthroughs in IRES-directed translation and replication of picornaviruses

SW Abdullah, J Wu, X Wang, H Guo, S Sun - MBio, 2023‏ - journals.asm.org
Viruses lack the properties to replicate independently due to the limited resources encoded
in their genome; therefore, they hijack the host cell machinery to replicate and survive …

Phase separation of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 upon specific RNA‐binding observed by magnetic resonance

I Ritsch, E Lehmann, L Emmanouilidis… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interaction of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (hnRNP A1) with specific single‐
stranded RNA and its relation to liquid‐liquid phase separation (LLPS) were studied in vitro …

Small molecule–RNA targeting: starting with the fundamentals

AE Hargrove - Chemical Communications, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The structural and regulatory elements in therapeutically relevant RNAs offer many
opportunities for targeting by small molecules, yet fundamental understanding of what drives …