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SUBMITTER: Gangji RN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6088358 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gangji Rahaman Navaz RN Sankaranarayanan Nehru Viji NV Elste James J Al-Horani Rami A RA Afosah Daniel K DK Joshi Rachel R Tiwari Vaibhav V Desai Umesh R UR
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20180716 8
Although heparan sulfate (HS) has been implicated in facilitating entry of enveloped viruses including herpes simplex virus (HSV), small molecules that effectively compete with this abundant, cell surface macromolecule remain unknown. We reasoned that entry of HSV-1 involving its glycoprotein D (gD) binding to HS could be competitively targeted through small, synthetic, nonsaccharide glycosaminoglycan mimetics (NSGMs). Screening a library of NSGMs identified a small, distinct group that bound gD ...[more]