Narlaprevir

A protease inhibitor.

Phase of research

Potential treatment - pre-clinical evidence

How it helps

Antiviral

Drug status

Used to treat other disease

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Clinical trials

General information

Narlaprevir is a hepatitic C virus (HCV) NS3 protease inhibitor (Tong et al., 2010) approved for chronic HCV infection treatment in Russia (Wikipedia).

Narlaprevir on DrugBank
Narlaprevir on PubChem



Marketed as

ARLANSA

 

Structure image - Narlaprevir

CCCC[C@@H](C(=O)C(=O)NC1CC1)NC(=O)[C@@H]2[C@@H]3[C@@H](C3(C)C)CN2C(=O)[C@H](C(C)(C)C)NC(=O)NC4(CCCCC4)CS(=O)(=O)C(C)(C)C


Supporting references

Link Tested on Impact factor Notes Publication date
A drug repurposing screen identifies hepatitis C antivirals as inhibitors of the SARS-CoV2 main protease
3CLpro Enzyme assay In vitro In silico Screening
in silico; in vitro enzyme assay 2.74

Inhibited the SARS-CoV-2 3C-like protease in vitro with IC50 of ca. 1.1 μM.

Feb/01/2021
Malleability of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL Mpro Active-Site Cavity Facilitates Binding of Clinical Antivirals
3CLpro Small molecule Enzyme assay In vitro
in vitro enzyme assay; X-ray crystallography 4.86

When co-crystalized with the SARS-CoV-2 3C-like protease (3CLpro), the drug was observed to interact with and structurally modify the enzyme's active site. The drug also inhibited 3CLpro in vitro.

Nov/08/2020
Structural basis for the inhibition of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease by the anti-HCV drug narlaprevir
3CLpro Crystallization Biophysical assay Small molecule Enzyme assay In vitro
in vitro enzyme assay; in vitro biophysical assay; crystallization 13.49

The drug binds the SARS-CoV-2 3C-like protease substrate-binding site and inhibits the enzyme with an IC50 of 16.11 μM and no cytotoxicity in Vero cells in concentrations up to 200 μM.

Feb/04/2021

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