Coxsackievirus A10 atomic structure facilitating the discovery of a broad-spectrum inhibitor against human enteroviruses.
Chen, J., Ye, X., Zhang, X.Y., Zhu, Z., Zhang, X., Xu, Z., Ding, Z., Zou, G., Liu, Q., Kong, L., Jiang, W., Zhu, W., Cong, Y., Huang, Z.(2019) Cell Discov 5: 4-4
- PubMed: 30652025 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41421-018-0073-7
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6IIJ, 6IIO - PubMed Abstract: 
Coxsackievirus A10 (CV-A10) belongs to the Enterovirus species A and is a causative agent of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Here we present cryo-EM structures of CV-A10 mature virion and native empty particle (NEP) at 2.84 and 3.12 Å, respectively. Our CV-A10 mature virion structure reveals a density corresponding to a lipidic pocket factor of 18 carbon atoms in the hydrophobic pocket formed within viral protein 1. By structure-guided high-throughput drug screening and subsequent verification in cell-based infection-inhibition assays, we identified four compounds that inhibited CV-A10 infection in vitro. These compounds represent a new class of anti-enteroviral drug leads. Notably, one of the compounds, ICA135, also exerted broad-spectrum inhibitory effects on a number of representative viruses from all four species (A-D) of human enteroviruses. Our findings should facilitate the development of broadly effective drugs and vaccines for enterovirus infections.
Organizational Affiliation: 
1National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.