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Drug repurposing through virtual screening and in vitro validation identifies tigecycline as a novel putative HCV polymerase inhibitor

The repurposing of marketed drugs for new indications is an elegant strategy to quickly and cost-efficiently address unmet medical needs. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) has been shown to be a valid drug target. We performed structure-based virtual screening to assess the off-label utilization of existing drugs as novel HCV inhibitors. The virtual screen showed that tigecycline could potentially dock with high affinity to the palm site of the HCV RdRp. In vitro validation showed that tigecycline had therapeutic indexes (CC50/EC50) greater than 13 and 6.5 against infectious HCV and subgenomic HCV replicons, respectively. Furthermore, tigecycline displayed synergistic activity with sofosbuvir and daclatasvir against HCV. In silico screening identified tigecycline as a putative inhibitor of HCV RdRp, which was validated in vitro and demonstrated synergistic effects in combination with first-line anti-HCV therapies.

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S2794 Sofosbuvir Sofosbuvir is a HCV NS5B polymerase inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

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