A review on HCV inhibitors: Significance of non-structural polyproteins

Eur J Med Chem. 2019 Feb 15:164:576-601. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.12.045. Epub 2018 Dec 31.

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) mortality and morbidity is a world health misery with an approximate 130-150 million chronically HCV tainted and suffering individuals and it initiate critical liver malfunction like cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma or liver HCV cancer. HCV NS5B protein one of the best studied therapeutic target for the identification of new drug candidates to be added to the combination or multiple combination medication recently approved. During the past few years, NS5B has thus been an important object of attractive medicinal chemistry endeavors, which induced to the surfacing of betrothal preclinical drug molecules. In this scenario, the current review set limit to discuss research published on NS5B and few other therapeutic functional inhibitors concentrating on hit investigation, hit to lead optimization, ADME parameters evaluation, and the SAR data which was out for each compound type and similarity taken into consideration. The discussion outlined in this specific review will surly helpful and vital tool for those medicinal chemists investigators working with HCV research programs mainly pointing on NS5B and set broad spectrum identification of creative anti HCV compounds. This mini review also tells each and every individual compound ability related how much they are active against NS5B and few other targets.

Keywords: HCV; Inhibitors; Interferon; Liver cirrhosis; NS5B; Viral genomes.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antiviral Agents / chemistry*
  • Hepacivirus / drug effects*
  • Hepatitis C / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Polyproteins / drug effects
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins / drug effects

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Polyproteins
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins
  • NS-5 protein, hepatitis C virus