申请人:Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
公开号:US05849587A1
公开(公告)日:1998-12-15
The present invention is directed to methods which employ inhibition of the post-translational hypusine formation in the intracelluar protein eIF-5A, for the purpose of suppressing infections by viruses that parasitize eIF-5A so as to promote their own replication. Intentional inhibition of the post-translational formation of hypusine in infected host cells with compounds generically termed `hypusine inhibitors` not only selectively suppresses the production of viral proteins and of infectious viral particles, but also causes, particularly after hypusine inhibitor withdrawal, apoptosis in such virally-infected cells. Each of these methods, respectively, involves administering, to eukaryotic cells, tissues, or individuals, an agent which blocks the post-translational intracellular formation of hypusine, in an amount sufficient to: suppress biosynthesis of bioactive eIF-5A, suppress translational interaction of eIF-5A with viral elements of nucleic acid and/or protein structure, inhibit biosynthesis of viral proteins of Rev-dependent lentiviruses or of viruses dependent on interaction of eIF-5A with viral elements of nucleic acid and/or protein structure, inhibit replication of Rev-dependent lentiviruses or of viruses dependent on interaction of eIF-5A with viral elements of nucleic acid and/or protein structure, and induce apoptosis of virally-infected cells. This agent can be a compound of Formulae I or II and derivatives thereof as follows: ##STR1## R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each individually represent a hydrogen, an alkyl, alkenyl, or alkoxy group containing 1 to about 8 carbon atoms, an aryl, aralkyl, or cycloalkyl group containing about 5 to 12 carbon atoms, or a carboalkoxy or carbamyl group containing up to 8 carbon atoms, or a peptide or peptidomimetic moiety containing 10 to about 30 carbon atoms.
本发明涉及一种方法,该方法采用抑制细胞内蛋白eIF-5A的翻译后Hypusine形成的方法,以抑制寄生于eIF-5A的病毒感染,从而促进它们自身的复制。通过使用通称为“Hypusine抑制剂”的化合物有意地抑制感染宿主细胞中的翻译后Hypusine形成,不仅可以选择性地抑制病毒蛋白和传染性病毒颗粒的产生,而且还会在Hypusine抑制剂撤回后,在这些受病毒感染的细胞中引起细胞凋亡。分别采用这些方法,向真核细胞、组织或个体中注射一种药物,该药物阻断细胞内翻译后Hypusine的形成,其量足以抑制生物活性的eIF-5A的生物合成,抑制eIF-5A与核酸和/或蛋白质结构的病毒元素的翻译相互作用,抑制Rev依赖性lentivirus或依赖于eIF-5A与病毒核酸和/或蛋白质结构元素相互作用的病毒蛋白的生物合成,抑制Rev依赖性lentivirus或依赖于eIF-5A与病毒核酸和/或蛋白质结构元素相互作用的病毒的复制,并诱导受病毒感染的细胞凋亡。该药物可以是如下式I或II及其衍生物的化合物:##STR1##其中,R1、R2、R3和R4分别独立地表示氢、含有1至约8个碳原子的烷基、烯基或烷氧基、含有约5至12个碳原子的芳基、芳基烷基或环烷基,或含有高达8个碳原子的羧基烷氧基或氨基甲酰基,或含有10至约30个碳原子的肽或肽类似物基团。