title: Evaluation of the antiviral effect of synthetic oligopeptides whose sequences are derived from paramyxovirus F1 N termini.
abstract: We examined the antiviral effects of three oligopeptides, carbobenzoxy(Z)-D-Phe-Ile-Gly, Z-D-Leu-Ile-Gly and Z-D-Phe-Phe-Gly, which mimic the N-terminal regions of F1 glycoproteins of two Newcastle disease virus strains (Miyadera and D26) and Sendai virus, respectively. Only one of these peptides, Z-D-Phe-Phe-Gly, significantly and with a similar potency inhibited viruses of homologous and heterologous F1 N-terminal sequences, suggesting no strict sequence requirement for inhibition. Furthermore, the enveloped RNA viruses of several different families showed essentially the same sensitivity to the three peptides as the paramyxoviruses, while a non-enveloped RNA virus was not susceptible to any of them. In addition, the Z-D-Phe-Phe-Gly peptides was effective only when the virus particles had been pretreated before infection.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Inocencio
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gotoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyoda
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kitada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagai
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009522:Newcastle disease virus / Q000187:drug effects; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010222:Parainfluenza Virus 1, Human / Q000187:drug effects; D010252:Paramyxoviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D010253:Respirovirus Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D010948:Viral Plaque Assay
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents; D009842:Oligopeptides