Molecular mechanism of respiratory syncytial virus fusion inhibitors [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 572.6 Proteins
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: p. 87-93 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 261008
• Chủ đề: 1. 59 basic biological sciences; 2. 60 applied life sciences; 3. Infectious diseases; 4. Mechanism of action; 5. Structure-based drug design; 6. Virology; 7. X-ray crystallography

Tóm tắt

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in young children and the elderly. Therapeutic small molecules have been developed that bind the RSV F glycoprotein and inhibit membrane fusion, yet their binding sites and molecular mechanisms of action remain largely unknown. In this paper, we show that these inhibitors bind to a three-fold-symmetric pocket within the central cavity of the metastable prefusion conformation of RSV F. Inhibitor binding stabilizes this conformation by tethering two regions that must undergo a structural rearrangement to facilitate membrane fusion. Inhibitor-escape mutations occur in residues that directly contact the inhibitors or are involved in the conformational rearrangements required to accommodate inhibitor binding. Resistant viruses do not propagate as well as wild-type RSV in vitro, indicating a fitness cost for inhibitor escape. Finally and collectively, these findings provide new insight into class I viral fusion proteins and should facilitate development of optimal RSV fusion inhibitors.