Bioactivity | Danoprevir (ITMN-191) is an orally active NS3/4A protease inhibitor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) with an IC50 of 0.29 nM and is selective for NS3/4A over a panel of 53 proteases (IC50 higher than 10 μM). Danoprevir (ITMN-191) inhibits HCV genotypes 1a, 1b, 4, 5, and 6 (IC50s=0.2-0.4 nM) as well as 2b and 3a (IC50s=1.6, 3.5 nM)[1][2]. Danoprevir is also a SARS-CoV 3CLpro inhibitor with an IC50 of 0.05 μM[3]. | ||||||||||||
Target | IC50: 0.29 nM (NS3/4A protease), 0.2-3.5 nM (HCV genotypes 1a, 1b, 2b, 3a, 4, 5, 6) | ||||||||||||
Invitro | In Huh7.5 cells transfected with chimeric recombinant virus, Danoprevir (ITMN-191) shows antiviral inhibition effects against HCV genotypes 1, 4 and 6 with IC50 of 2-3 nM, which are >100-fold lower than genotypes 2/3/5 (280-750 nM)[1]. Danoprevir (ITMN-191) inhibits the reference genotype 1 NS3/4A protease half-maximally, but a high dose of Danoprevir (ITMN-191) (10 μM) shows no appreciably inhibition in a panel of 79 proteases, ion channels, transporters, and cell surface receptors. Danoprevir (ITMN-191) remains bound to and inhibits NS3/4A for more than 5 hours after its initial association. Danoprevir (ITMN-191) (45 nM) eliminates a patient-derived HCV genotype 1b replicon from hepatocyte-derived Huh7 cells with an EC50 of 1.8 nM[2]. In HCV subgenomic replicon cell lines containing the individual mutations, V36M, R109K, and V170A substitutions confer little or no resistance to Danoprevir (ITMN-191), but the R155K substitution confers a high level (62-fold increase) of resistance to Danoprevir[3]. | ||||||||||||
In Vivo | Danoprevir (ITMN-191) (30 mg/kg, p.o.) administered to rats or monkeys shows that its concentrations in liver 12 hours after dosing exceed the Danoprevir concentration required to eliminate replicon RNA from cells[2]. | ||||||||||||
Name | Danoprevir | ||||||||||||
CAS | 850876-88-9 | ||||||||||||
Formula | C35H46FN5O9S | ||||||||||||
Molar Mass | 731.83 | ||||||||||||
Appearance | Solid | ||||||||||||
Transport | Room temperature in continental US; may vary elsewhere. | ||||||||||||
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Reference | [1]. Imhof I, et al. Genotype differences in susceptibility and resistance development of hepatitis C virus to protease inhibitors telaprevir (VX-950) and danoprevir (ITMN-191).Hepatology. 2011 Apr;53(4):1090-9. [2]. Seiwert, Scott D., et al. Preclinical characteristics of the hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibitor ITMN-191 (R7227). Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2008), 52(12), 4432-4441. [3]. Bartels DJ, et al. Natural prevalence of hepatitis C virus variants with decreased sensitivity to NS3.4A protease inhibitors in treatment-naive subjects. J Infect Dis. 2008 Sep 15;198(6):800-7. [4]. Qi Sun, et al. Bardoxolone and bardoxolone methyl, two Nrf2 activators in clinical trials, inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication and its 3C-like protease. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2021 May 29;6(1):212. |