- June 1, 2009
- 11:45 PM
- 473 views
How do adamantane drugs block M2?
by Michael Clarkson in Discount Thoughts
Vaccination plays such an important role in our seasonal influenza strategy in part because we don't have many medicines that can be brought to bear on the disease. The neuraminidase inhibitors (specifically Tamiflu) are widely stockpiled, and continue to work for now, but the specter of resistance is already lurking. If these drugs are too widely or too improperly used, there is a good chance that resistance mutations will eventually render these drugs ineffective. Universal drug resistance may........ Read more »
Stouffer, A., Acharya, R., Salom, D., Levine, A., Di Costanzo, L., Soto, C., Tereshko, V., Nanda, V., Stayrook, S., & DeGrado, W. (2008) Structural basis for the function and inhibition of an influenza virus proton channel. Nature, 451(7178), 596-599. DOI: 10.1038/nature06528
Schnell, J., & Chou, J. (2008) Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus. Nature, 451(7178), 591-595. DOI: 10.1038/nature06531
Jing, X., Ma, C., Ohigashi, Y., Oliveira, F., Jardetzky, T., Pinto, L., & Lamb, R. (2008) Functional studies indicate amantadine binds to the pore of the influenza A virus M2 proton-selective ion channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(31), 10967-10972. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804958105
Pielak, R., Schnell, J., & Chou, J. (2009) Mechanism of drug inhibition and drug resistance of influenza A M2 channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(18), 7379-7384. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902548106
- May 1, 2009
- 07:49 AM
- 662 views
Why Swine Flu Is Resistant to Adamantane Drugs
by Nick Anthis in The Scientific Activist
On Wednesday, the CDC reported that influenza A H1N1 viruses from 13 patients with confirmed diagnoses of swine flu had been tested for resistance to a variety of antiviral drugs. The good news was that all of the isolates were susceptible to the antiviral drugs oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). However, all 13 were resistant to adamantane-based drugs (amantadine and rimantadine). Resistance to adamantane drugs (which were developed first) has actually become quite widespread amo........ Read more »
Schnell, J., & Chou, J. (2008) Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus. Nature, 451(7178), 591-595. DOI: 10.1038/nature06531
Pielak, R., Schnell, J., & Chou, J. (2009) Mechanism of drug inhibition and drug resistance of influenza A M2 channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902548106
Stouffer, A., Acharya, R., Salom, D., Levine, A., Di Costanzo, L., Soto, C., Tereshko, V., Nanda, V., Stayrook, S., & DeGrado, W. (2008) Structural basis for the function and inhibition of an influenza virus proton channel. Nature, 451(7178), 596-599. DOI: 10.1038/nature06528
Stouffer, A., Ma, C., Cristian, L., Ohigashi, Y., Lamb, R., Lear, J., Pinto, L., & DeGrado, W. (2008) The Interplay of Functional Tuning, Drug Resistance, and Thermodynamic Stability in the Evolution of the M2 Proton Channel from the Influenza A Virus. Structure, 16(7), 1067-1076. DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.04.011
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