Title:Discovery of Dengue Virus Inhibitors
Volume: 27
Issue: 30
Author(s): Adib Afandi Abdullah, Yean Kee Lee, Sek Peng Chin, See Khai Lim, Vannajan Sanghiran Lee, Rozana Othman, Shatrah Othman, Noorsaadah Abdul Rahman, Rohana Yusof and Choon Han Heh*
Affiliation:
- Drug Design and Development Research Group (DDDRG), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Keywords:
Drug discovery, dengue virus, virus inhibitors, structural proteins, non-structural proteins, drug targets.
Abstract: To date, there is still no approved anti-dengue agent to treat dengue infection in the market.
Although the only licensed dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia is available, its protective efficacy
against serotypes 1 and 2 of dengue virus was reported to be lower than serotypes 3 and 4. Moreover,
according to WHO, the risk of being hospitalized and having severe dengue increased in seronegative
individuals after they received Dengvaxia vaccination. Nevertheless, various studies had
been carried out in search of dengue virus inhibitors. These studies focused on the structural (C,
prM, E) and non-structural proteins (NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B and NS5) of dengue
virus as well as host factors as drug targets. Hence, this article provides an overall up-to-date review
of the discovery of dengue virus inhibitors that are only targeting the structural and non-structural
viral proteins as drug targets.