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Molecules ; 28(9)2023 May 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2316555

RESUMO

Mitochondria (MITO) play a significant role in various physiological processes and are a key organelle associated with different human diseases including cancer, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, etc. Thus, detecting the activity of MITO in real time is becoming more and more important. Herein, a novel class of amphiphilic aggregation-induced emission (AIE) active probe fluorescence (AC-QC nanoparticles) based on a quinoxalinone scaffold was developed for imaging MITO. AC-QC nanoparticles possess an excellent ability to monitor MITO in real-time. This probe demonstrated the following advantages: (1) lower cytotoxicity; (2) superior photostability; and (3) good performance in long-term imaging in vitro. Each result of these indicates that self-assembled AC-QC nanoparticles can be used as effective and promising MITO-targeted fluorescent probes.


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Nanopartículas , Neoplasias , Humanos , Corantes Fluorescentes/farmacologia , Mitocôndrias , Fluorescência
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 533(3): 467-473, 2020 Dec 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1064868

RESUMO

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been a crisis of global health, whereas the effective vaccines against 2019-nCoV are still under development. Alternatively, utilization of old drugs or available medicine that can suppress the viral activity or replication may provide an urgent solution to suppress the rapid spread of 2019-nCoV. Andrographolide is a highly abundant natural product of the medicinal plant, Andrographis paniculata, which has been clinically used for inflammatory diseases and anti-viral therapy. We herein demonstrate that both andrographolide and its fluorescent derivative, the nitrobenzoxadiazole-conjugated andrographolide (Andro- NBD), suppressed the main protease (Mpro) activities of 2019-nCoV and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Moreover, Andro-NBD was shown to covalently link its fluorescence to these proteases. Further mass spectrometry (MS) analysis suggests that andrographolide formed a covalent bond with the active site Cys145 of either 2019-nCoV Mpro or SARS-CoV Mpro. Consistently, molecular modeling analysis supported the docking of andrographolide within the catalytic pockets of both viral Mpros. Considering that andrographolide is used in clinical practice with acceptable safety and its diverse pharmacological activities that could be beneficial for attenuating COVID-19 symptoms, extensive investigation of andrographolide on the suppression of 2019-nCoV as well as its application in COVID-19 therapy is suggested.


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Cisteína Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Diterpenos/farmacologia , Inibidores de Proteases/química , Inibidores de Proteases/farmacologia , Proteínas não Estruturais Virais/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteínas não Estruturais Virais/metabolismo , Betacoronavirus/enzimologia , Domínio Catalítico , Proteases 3C de Coronavírus , Cisteína Endopeptidases/química , Diterpenos/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/farmacologia , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular , Conformação Proteica , Multimerização Proteica , Coronavírus Relacionado à Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Grave/enzimologia , SARS-CoV-2 , Proteínas não Estruturais Virais/química
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