Tanespimycin for COVID-19
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Tanespimycin may be beneficial for
COVID-19 according to the studies below.
COVID-19 involves the interplay of 500+ viral and host proteins and factors providing many therapeutic targets.
Scientists have proposed 12,000+ potential treatments.
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220+ treatments.
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, Heat Shock Protein Inhibitor Tanespimycin (17AAG) Suppresses SARS‐CoV‐2 Main Protease Activity and Is More Potent Than Clinically Approved Antiviral Nirmatrelvir, ChemBioChem, doi:10.1002/cbic.70493
The COVID‐19 pandemic caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 created a global health crisis, and the virus still circulates, mutates, and causes illness and death. Vaccination remains the primary defense, but effectiveness can be reduced in immunocompromised individuals and against new variants, and clinically approved antivirals are limited by side effects, drug interactions, and resistance. Herein, we propose a novel application of tanespimycin (17AAG), the chaperone heat shock protein (HSP)90 inhibitor, as an antiviral against the SARS‐CoV‐2 main protease (M pro ). M pro , due to its indispensable role in viral replication and absence of expression in the host, represents a key target for drug development. Through biochemical and cell‐based assays, structural analysis, and resistance‐mutant testing, we present data showing that 17AAG covalently binds to the active‐site cysteine of M pro , disrupts its secondary structure, and protects cells from M pro ‐induced toxicity more effectively than nirmatrelvir. We further showed that 17AAG retains its covalent binding and structure‐disrupting activity against the nirmatrelvir‐resistance M165I variant. Additionally, since HSP90 is important for viral protein stability, virion assembly, and modulation of host immune response, 17AAG is a promising, versatile drug candidate that could accelerate antiviral development for COVID‐19.
, Drug-target identification in COVID-19 disease mechanisms using computational systems biology approaches, Frontiers in Immunology, doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1282859
IntroductionThe COVID-19 Disease Map project is a large-scale community effort uniting 277 scientists from 130 Institutions around the globe. We use high-quality, mechanistic content describing SARS-CoV-2-host interactions and develop interoperable bioinformatic pipelines for novel target identification and drug repurposing. MethodsExtensive community work allowed an impressive step forward in building interfaces between Systems Biology tools and platforms. Our framework can link biomolecules from omics data analysis and computational modelling to dysregulated pathways in a cell-, tissue- or patient-specific manner. Drug repurposing using text mining and AI-assisted analysis identified potential drugs, chemicals and microRNAs that could target the identified key factors.ResultsResults revealed drugs already tested for anti-COVID-19 efficacy, providing a mechanistic context for their mode of action, and drugs already in clinical trials for treating other diseases, never tested against COVID-19. DiscussionThe key advance is that the proposed framework is versatile and expandable, offering a significant upgrade in the arsenal for virus-host interactions and other complex pathologies.