| Literature DB >> 26387819 |
Jin-Beom Cho1, Jin-Moo Lee1, Hee-Chul Ahn2, Yong-Joo Jeong1.
Abstract
A new chemical inhibitor against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus helicase, 7-ethyl-8-mercapto-3-methyl-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione, was identified. We investigated the inhibitory effect of the compound by conducting colorimetry-based ATP hydrolysis assay and fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based double-stranded DNA unwinding assay. The compound suppressed both ATP hydrolysis and double-stranded DNA unwinding activities of helicase with IC50 values of 8.66 ± 0.26 μM and 41.6 ± 2.3 μM, respectively. Moreover, we observed that the compound did not show cytotoxicity up to 80 µMconcentration. Our results suggest that the compound might serve as a SARS coronavirus inhibitor.Entities:
Keywords: ATP hydrolysis; SARS; dsDNA unwinding; helicase
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26387819 DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1507.07078
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Microbiol Biotechnol ISSN: 1017-7825 Impact factor: 2.351