Mikael Feracci, Cécilia Eydoux, Véronique Fattorini, Lea Lo Bello, Pierre Gauffre, Barbara Selisko, Priscila Sutto-Ortiz, Ashleigh Shannon, Hongjie Xia, Pei-Yong Shi, Mathieu Noel, Françoise Debart, Jean-Jacques Vasseur, Steve Good, Kai Lin, Adel Moussa, Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Aurélie Chazot, Karine Alvarez, Jean-Claude Guillemot, Etienne Decroly, François Ferron, Bruno Canard
AT-752 is a guanosine analogue prodrug active against dengue virus (DENV). In infected cells, it is metabolized into 2'-methyl-2'-fluoro guanosine 5'-triphosphate (AT-9010) which inhibits RNA synthesis in acting as a RNA chain terminator. Here we show that AT-9010 has several modes of action on DENV full-length NS5. AT-9010 does not inhibit the primer pppApG synthesis step significantly. However, AT-9010 targets two NS5-associated enzyme activities, the RNA 2'-O-MTase and the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) at its RNA elongation step...
April 2023: Antiviral Research