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Structure-guided optimization of adenosine mimetics as selective and potent inhibitors of coronavirus nsp14 N7-methyltransferases

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The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the urgent need to develop new therapeutics targeting the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery. The first antiviral drugs were nucleoside analogues targeting RdRp and protease inhibitors active on nsp5 Mpro. In addition to these common antiviral targets, SARS-CoV-2 codes for the highly conserved protein nsp14 harbouring N7methyltransferase (MTase) activity. Nsp14 is involved in cap N7-methylation of viral RNA and its inhibition impairs viral RNA translation and immune evasion, making it an attractive new antiviral target. In this work, we followed a structure-guided drug design approach to design bisubstrates mimicking the S-adenosylmethionine methyl donor and RNA cap. We developed adenosine mimetics with an N-arylsulfonamide moiety in the 5'-position, recently described as a guanine mimicking the cap structure in a potent adenosine-derived nsp14 inhibitor. Here, the adenine moiety was replaced by hypoxanthine, N 6-methyladenine, or C7-substituted 7-deazaadenine. 26 novel adenosine mimetics were synthesized, one of which selectively inhibits nsp14 N7-MTase activity with a subnanomolar IC50 (and seven with a single-digit nanomolar IC50). In the most potent inhibitors, adenine was replaced by two different 7-deaza-adenines bearing either a phenyl or a 3-quinoline group at the C7-position via an ethynyl linker. These more complex compounds are barely active on the cognate human N7-MTase and docking experiments reveal that their selectivity of inhibition might result from the positioning of their C7 substitution in a SAM entry tunnel present in the nsp14 structure and absent in the hN7-MTase. These compounds show moderate antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 replication in cell culture, suggesting delivery or stability issue.
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hal-04095336 , version 1 (11-05-2023)

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Marcel Hausdorff, Adrien Delpal, Sarah Barelier, Laura Nicollet, Bruno Canard, et al.. Structure-guided optimization of adenosine mimetics as selective and potent inhibitors of coronavirus nsp14 N7-methyltransferases. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.115474⟩. ⟨hal-04095336⟩
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