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Antiviral Drugs Flashcards

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Examples of host defenses?

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Mechanical, Chemical, Biological Barriers.

Immune System

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Non-intrinsic ways viruses can be controlled?

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Vaccines, anti-viral drugs

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Three kinds of vaccines?

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Inactivated, Attenuated, Genetically Engineered

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What are inactivated vaccines?

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Genome of virus destroyed, caspid intact (polio)

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What are attenuated vaccines?

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Live viruses that are extremely slow are replication (MMR)

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What are genetically engineered vaccines?

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viral proteins are produced by yeast cells, concentrated, and purified (hep B)

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Why do we need antiviral agents?

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Many diseases don’t have vaccines
Fast mutation
Reassortment
Immunosuppresive Diesease

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barriers to effective antivirals?

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Only targeting the virus
Resistance from mutation
Late symptoms
Intracellular

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Name some viruses that have anti-viral drugs.

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Herpes simplex
varicella Zoster
cytomegalovirus
HIV
Influenza
Hepatitis
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10
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Viral disruption can be utilized against…

Give two examples

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Enveloped Viruses

N9 - detergent HSV and HIV
Citric Acid - Common Cold/Rhinoviruses

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How might an anti-viral inhibit viral attachment?

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Antibodies bind to a virus – aggregation or interference with receptor binding

Receptor antagonist – ex. change CCR receptor to stop HIV binding

Fusion inhibitors – (ex. enfuvirtide) inhibit the ability of HIV to get into T cells

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Name two antivirals for uncoating.

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Amantadine

Rimantadine

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How do adamantanes work?

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They target M2 protein to block a H+ pump required in the process of viral uncoating.

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What do you treat with amantadine?

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Influenza A

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What are two ways to target nucleic acid synthesis?

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Nucleoside analogs and non-nucleoside analogs

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What are two ways that nucleoside analogs can work?

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Inhibition of viral polymerase via chain terminations

Errors in replication/transcription

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What is acyclovir used to treat?

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Herpes infections

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How does acyclovir work?

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Acts as a purine mimic, but lacks the 3’ hydroxyl.
Converted by HSV thymidine kinase (viral) so only infected cells will be exposed.

Acyclovir triphosphate incorporates into the DNA chain and has no 3’ OH, so termination is cancelled.

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How does Ganciclovir work?

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A synthetic analogue of 2-deoxyguanosine – similar to acyclovir using a different kinase)

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What is Ganciclovir used to treat?

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All herpes viruses – including cytomegalovirus

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What is azidothymidine?

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An analog of thymidine with the 3’OH replaced with an azido group.

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How does azidothymidine work?

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Inhibits reverse transcriptase function, causing premature DNA chain termination.

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What is azidothymidine used to treat?

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HIV

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What are acyclic nucleoside phosphonates? Give two examples.

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Nucleoside analogues with a P attached to a sugar. No need for phosphorylation

Cidofovir and Tenofovir

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What are cidofovir and tenofovir used to treat?

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Cidofovir – CMV, Retinitis in AIDS

Tenofovir – HBV and HIV

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What is telbivudine? What does it treat?

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A synthetic thymidine nucleoside analog that inhibits viral DNA polymerase.

HBV

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What is ribavirin? How does it work?

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Ribavirin is an analog of the nucleoside guanosine, but with an open ring structure. It is incorporated into RNA, and because of its compatability with U and C, it introduces mutations.

Used to treat a lot of different viruses.

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What is triflourothymidine?

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A thymidine analog with a CF3 group added the the uracil part to block base pairing. It is Pd by cellular enzymes.

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What is triflourothymidine used to treat?

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epithelial keratitis caused by herpes virus

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What is idoxuridine? What do you use it to treat?

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Idoxuridine substitutes for thymidine in viral DNA. Same as acyclovir, except host cells can also P, so it is less selective.

Herpes Simplex Virus

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What is foscarnet? How does it work?

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Simple compounds resembling pyrophosphate

Bind to pyrophosphate-binding site of DNA pol to block nucleotide binding

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What do you treat with foscarnet?

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Herpes, HIV, CMV

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What are nevirapine, efavirenz, and delavirdine?

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Non-nucleoside transcriptase inhibitors
They bind directly to RT and block the enzyme’s catalytic site.
Doesn’t require P.

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What are nevirapine, efavirenz, and delavirdine used to treat?

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HIV

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What do integrase inhibitors do?

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Inhibit the integration of DNA into the genome.

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What is interferon?

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Glycoproteins that interfere with replication of the virus by inhibiting protein synthesis of the infected cell

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Types of Interferon?

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IFN-alpha –> virus infected APCs
IFN-beta –> virus infected fibroblasts
IFN-gamma –> activated T cells

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What induces interferon activity?

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dsRNA, interactions with sense/anti RNA with DNA viruses, or envelop interaction with DCs

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Mechanism of interferon activity?

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Initial infected cell releases IFN

Binds to specific receptor and induces antiviral state by synthesis of PKR, 2-5 oligoadenylate synthetase

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Results of interferon activity

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mRNA is degraded and protein synthesis is inhibited to block viral replication (by 2-5 oligoadenylate synthetase)

Inhibition of ribosome assembly (PKR) by inhibiting elf-2alpha

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What does interferon do to help the initially infected cell?

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Nothing.

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Name some protease inhibitors.

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Saquinavir, Indinavir, Nelfinavir, Ritonavir

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What are protease inhibitors? What do they treat?

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They prevent viral replication by inhibiting the protease use the cleave polyproteins into their final rpoducts.

Treats HIV and Hep C

44
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How do neuraminidase inhibitors work? Name two.

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They catalyze the clevage os sialic acid residues on glycoproteins/lipids, making virons unable to detach and leave the cell.

45
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What are neuraminidase inhibitors used to treat?

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Influenza A and B

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