PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - S. Feranchuk
AU  - U. Potapova
AU  - S. Belikov
TI  - Virtual screening of inhibitors for the Zika virus proteins
AID  - 10.1101/060798
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 060798
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/27/060798.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/27/060798.full
AB  - The NS3 protease and NS5 polymerase structures of the Zika virus were constructed and processed using a virtual screening pipeline. MM-PBSA calculations show that some of the ligands found by the pipeline demonstrate a good affinity to vulnerable sites in both proteins. The anti-hypertension drug eprosartan is among the selected ligands; and inhibition of the tick-borne encephalitis virus has already been confirmed in vivo by a previous study. In the present study phytochemicals bisabolol and andrographolide are suggested as the candidates for antiviral therapy.