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LEC 9 - Antiviral Agents + Targets Flashcards

1
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What is the conventional approach to control of viral diseases?

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Vaccines

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What is the objective of antiviral drug therapy?

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Eradicate virus

Minimally impact the host

Prevent further viral invasion

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What are the problems that people run into when developing anti-virals?

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Need to penetrate host cells

Narrow therapeutic margin

Viral latency issues affect efficacy

Susceptibility testing is challenging/costly

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4
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What is the common way to classify antiviral drugs?

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Through their mechanism of action

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What are the five types of antivirals?

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Immunomodulators

Ion channel blockers

Neuraminidase inhibitors

DNA/RNA synthesis inhibitors

Antiretroviral

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6
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What is the basic way that ion channel blockers work?

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Block uncoating

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7
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What types of drugs are in the group of immunomodulators?

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Interferons

Interleukins

Growth factors

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8
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What is the most dominant immunomodulator?

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Type 1 interferon

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9
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What type of activity foes type 1 interferons have?

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Antiviral activity

Immunomodulatory effects

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10
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What is Feline interferon-omega used for?

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Cats - FeLV + FIV

Dogs - Parvo virus

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11
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What are the ion channel blockers?

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Amantadines

(Amantadine + Rimantadine)

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12
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What are the amatadines used for?

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Influenza A viruses

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13
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How does ion channel blockers work?

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Block uncoating step of the life cycle

Insert into M2 protein channel - no H+ enters

No M1 protein dissociation

Keeps viral RNA within protein coat

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14
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Whats the normal steps in viral uncoating?

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Endosomal acidification

Active viral M2 channel protein - H+ enters virion

Viral M1 matrix protein dissociates = viral uncoating

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15
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What causes resistance to ion channel blockers?

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Mutations in M2 protein

Widespread, no longer recommended for use

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16
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What drugs are in the neuraminidase inhibitor family?

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Oseltamivir + Zanamivir

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17
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What are the neuraminidase inhibitors used for?

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Influenze A + B

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18
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How do the neuraminidase inhibitors work?

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Block the release of Influenze A + B from host cell membrane

Sialic acid analods

Bind to NA and prevent enzymatic acitivty

Inhibits viral release - can’t infect new cells

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19
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What is the normal events that occur when Influenza A or B are released from the host cell?

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replication occurs

Virus buds from host cell

remains bound to sialic acid on host cell membrane

Viral NA cleaves virus from salic acid

Virus released

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20
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How does resistance to NA inhibitors occur?

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Sporadic cases

Mutation in NA

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21
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What infections has NA inhibitors been recommended for in dogs?

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Canine parvo infection

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22
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What are the types of antiviral agents that are considered DNA/RNA synthesis inhibitors?

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Nuceloside synthesis inhibitor

Nucleoside analogs - DNA

Nucleoside analogs - RNA

Nucleoside + Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

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23
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How do nucleoside synthesis inhibitors work?

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Directly inhibit DNA/RNA polymerase activity

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24
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What are the nucleoside synthesis inhibitors?

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Foscarnet

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25
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What are the two types of nucleoside analogs for DNA syntesis?

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Purine + Pyrimidine

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26
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What are the purine analogs?

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Acyclovir

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27
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What are the pyrimidine analogs?

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Cidofovir

Idoxuridine

Trifluridine

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28
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What drugs are nucleoside analogs that interfere with viral RNA synthesis?

29
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How does foscarnet work?

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Direct inhibition of DNA polymerase

Bind to pyrophosphate binding site

Prevent cleavage of pryophosphate

Halts DNA replication

30
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What viruses does foscarnet work for?

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Wide range

Herpesvirus

– and –

Retrovirus

31
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What can cause resistance to foscarnet?

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Mutations in viral DNA polymerase

32
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How do nucleoside analogs work?

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Inhibit viral DNA polyermase

Chain termination activity

Converted to triphosphate nucleotides in host cell

33
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What viruses are the target for nucleoside analog treatment?

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Herpesvirus

34
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What is Acyvlovir a analog of?

35
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How does Acyclovir work?

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Inhibits replication

ACV is converted to ACV-P by viral enzyme TK

Competitive inhibitor of viral polymerase

Higher affinity for DNA polymerase

36
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How is Acyclovir selective?

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Uninfected cells will not change ACV into ACV-P

37
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How does resistance to Acyclovir occur?

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Mutation in viral TK or DNA polymerase

38
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What are the prodrug derivatives of Acyclovir?

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Valacylovir

Famicilovir

Valganciclovir

39
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What do all nucleoside analogs require?

A

Inital phosphorylation by virally-encoded enzymes

40
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What is ACV + PCV phosphorlylated by?

41
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What is GCV phosphorylated by?

A

Viral Protein Kinase (PK)

42
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How does Vidarabine work?

A

Interferes with viral DNA polymerase activity

43
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How is vidarabine used in vet medicine?

A

FHV-1 ocular infections in cats

Topical use ONLY

44
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What is cidofovir an analog of?

A

Deoxycytosine

45
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How does Cidofovir work?

A

Inhibitiion of polymerase activity

Chain termination

46
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How do viruses become resistant to Cidofovir?

A

Mutations in DNA polymerase

47
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What does Cidofovir work against?

A

Herpes

Adeno

Poz

Papilloma

48
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How can Cidofovir be used opthalmically?

A

Herpes eye infections in cats

49
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What are the two forms of pyrimidine analogs?

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Idoxuridine

Trifluridien

50
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What is the structure of Idoxuridine?

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Iodine atom added to a uracil

51
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What is the structure of Trifluridine?

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Contains -CF3 group added to Uracil

52
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How are Pyrimidine analogs used?

A

Feline herpes eye infectiosn

53
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What does Ribavirin resemble?

A

Purine analog

Resembles RNA nucleotides

54
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How does Ribavirin work?

A

Immunomodulator - promote Th1 development

Inhibits IMPDH enzyme - stops GTP synthesis

Inhibits RNA-dependent RNA polymerase - RNA replication

Promotes mutagenesis

Interferes with mRNA capping

55
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How does ribavirin promote mutagenesis?

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Resemble both A + G bases

Incoporated into RNA

56
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What does ribavirin work against?

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Both RNA + DNA viruses

Works best against RNA respiratory viruses + Herpes

57
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How does resistance to antiretroviral agents develope?

A

Mutations at or near drugs binding site

OR

Mutations that change the conformation of target protien

58
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What is the antiretroviral used to treat FIV + FeLV?

A

AZT

in combination with type I interferon

59
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How does Zifovudine work?

A

Selective inhibition of viral reverse transcriptase

60
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What are the non-nucleoside RT inhibitors?

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Efavirenz

Nevirapine

Delavirdine

61
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How do the non-nucleoside RT inhibitors work?

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Non-competively binding to reverse transcriptase + inhibiting its action

62
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What are the fusion/entry inhibitors?

A

maraviroc

– and –

Enfuvirtide

63
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How do the fusion/entry inhibitors work?

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Interfere with receptor-mediated binding of virus to host

– or –

Prevent fusion of retroviral envelope with host cell membrane

64
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What are the integrase inhibitors?

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Raltegravir

– and –

Elvitegravir

65
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How do integrase inhibitors work?

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Inhibit integration of viral DNA into the host cell genome

66
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What are the protease inhibitors?

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Saquinavir

Ritonavir

Indinavir

67
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How do the protease inhibitors function?

A

Binding to + inhibiting proteolytic activity of viral protease

Prevent cleavage of polypeptide into functional proteins

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