ON THE MECHANISM OF SELECTIVE-INHIBITION OF HERPESVIRUS REPLICATION BY (E)-5-(2-BROMOVINYL)-2'-DEOXYURIDINE
ON THE MECHANISM OF SELECTIVE-INHIBITION OF HERPESVIRUS REPLICATION BY (E)-5-(2-BROMOVINYL)-2'-DEOXYURIDINE
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.78.5.2698
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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DECLERCQ, E
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ALLAUDEEN, HS;KOZARICH, JW;DECLERCQ, E
Bromovinyldeoxyuridine (BVdUrd) is a potent antiherpesvirus compound with low cytotoxicity. To gain an insight into its selectivity and mechanism of inhibition, the 5''-triphosphate of BVdUrd, BVdUTP was chemically synthesized and its effect was tested on the activites of DNA polymerases [DNA nucleotidyltransferase (DNA directed), EC 2.7.7.7] of 2 herpesviruses, i.e., herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and cellular DNA polymerases .alpha., .beta. and .gamma.. The effects on the DNA polymerases were determined under assay conditions optimal for the individual polymerases. The BVdUTP was considerably more inhibitory to the utilization of dTTP by the HSV-1 DNA polymerase than by the cellular DNA polymerases. For instance, as little as 1 .mu.M BVdUTP inhibited the utilization of dTTP by HSV-1 DNA polymerase 50%; the same concentration inhibited the DNA polymerase .alpha. and the DNA polymerase .beta. activities only 9 and 3%, respectively. The BVdUTP inhibited DNA synthesis by competing with the natural substrate, dTTP. The Km for dTTP and the Ki for the BVdUTP of the HSV-1 DNA polymerase were 0.66 and 0.25 .mu.M, respectively. Kinetic analyses with the DNA polymerases .alpha. and .beta. and the EBV DNA polymerase also reflected a similar difference in sensitivity between the HSV-1 enzyme and other enzymes. Increasing the concentration of the DNA template or the enzyme in the reaction mixture did not bring about a significant change in the extent of inhibition. Preincubation of the inhibitor with the enzyme was not necessary for inhibition. Studies on time course of inhibition revealed that the compound is inhibitory even after the initiation of DNA synthesis. These studies indicate that the ability of BVdUTP to preferentially inhibit the HSV-1 DNA polymerase may contribute towards its selective inhibition of the viral DNA replication in infected cells.