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Lei Wang1, Chunlong Ma2, Michael Dominic Sacco3
1Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
Abstract:
SARS-CoV-2 is still wreaking havoc all over the world with surging morbidity and high mortality. The main protease (Mpro ) is essential in the replication of SARS-CoV-2, enabling itself an active target for antiviral development. Herein, we reported the design and synthesis of a new class of peptidomimetics-constrained α, γ-AA peptides, based on which a series of aldehyde and ketoamide inhibitors of the Mpro of SARS-CoV-2 were prepared. The lead compounds showed excellent inhibitory activity in the FRET-based Mpro enzymatic assay not only for the Mpro of SARS-CoV-2 but also for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, along with HCoVs like HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63 and HKU1. The X-ray crystallographic results demonstrated that our compounds form a covalent bond with the catalytic Cys145. They also demonstrated effective antiviral activity against live SARS-CoV-2. Overall, the results suggest that α, γ-AA peptide could be a promising molecular scaffold in designing novel Mpro inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses.
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