Background technology
Although the research of antiviral therapy medicine has obtained very big progress in recent years, and the extensive use clinically of these antiviral drugs,, the incidence rate of the various diseases that is caused by virus and mortality rate are still high.The atypical pneumonia that spring in 2003 took place with ground such as Hong Kong, Taiwan in China promptly is a typical example, this atypical pneumonia is that the mutation by coronavirus causes, invalid to nearly all antiviral drugs, still there is not effective specific treatment medication clinically.At present, normally used antiviral drugs all is to play a role by suppressing the synthetic of viral DNA, RNA or transcribe on the market, therefore these antiviral drugs are a large amount of use in, the generation of drug resistance virus strains is also just not at all surprising.
Leflunomide is a kind of synthetic isoxazole compounds, has immunosuppressant and antiproliferative effect.Since the nineties in 20th century, leflunomide has been carried out in the process of various bases and clinical research, unexpected discovery leflunomide has anti-cytomegalovirus (ID concurrently
50=40~60 μ M) and herpes simplex virus (IC
5015 μ M) and the characteristic of other multiple viruses, and this mechanism of action has the significantly different (new mechanisms of W.J.Waldman et al. experiment immunization inhibitor leflunomide inhibition cytomegalovirus with other antiviral drugs, Transplantation, 68 (6): 814-825,1999; D.A.Knight et al. experiment immunization inhibitor leflunomide is to the inhibitory action of herpes simplex virus, Transplantation, 71:170-174,2001).Leflunomide can not suppress duplicating, transcribing of viral DNA, RNA, but leflunomide can suppress the kinase whose activity of butyric acid, to the peplos building-up process generation inhibitory action of part virus, thus the performance antivirus action.Have not yet to see the correlational study report of clinicing aspect, but Hardinger etc. are in the research process of the anti-organ rejection of medicine, the patient who observes cytomegalovirus infection is using the phenomenon (generation that K.L.Hardinger et al. leflunomide replacement therapy can slow down the transplanted kidney function obstacle that leflunomide immunologic rejection treatment back viral infection also disappears, meeting, 2002 are transplanted by the U.S.).Can leflunomide produce inhibitory action by similar mechanism to SARS virus is worth research.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide the application of leflunomide on the preparation SARS resisting medicine.
The applicant entrusts national drug screening center to carry out the anti-SARS virus screening test in July, 2003, adopts the active metabolite Fusaimi (A771726) of leflunomide, and sample is dissolved in culture fluid or DMSO, is made into suitable initial concentration, and dilution.The Vero-E6 cell inoculation in 96 well culture plates, is put 37 ℃, 5%CO
2Cultivate, behind the SARS virus infection cell, add the sample of different diluted concentrations respectively, establish virus control, cell contrast and sample contrast.Observed result under the every day mirror, record CPE, and measure OD value with dimethyl diaminophenazine chloride dyeing, carries out the calculating and the evaluation of sample anti-SARS virus active function with reference to contrasting.Experimental result shows: the active metabolite Fusaimi of leflunomide has the effect of anti-SARS virus, the infected cell of protection.
The specific embodiment
The anti-SARS virus effect of embodiment 1 leflunomide active metabolite Fusaimi
TestDate: 2003-7-17
Test event; Medicine anti-SARS virus screening active ingredients (virus-cellular level model)
Test philosophy: as virus host cell (permissive cell), specimen is resisted the effect of virus infected cell with the Vero-E6 cell, and detecting index is cytopathy reaction (CPE) and infection cell protective rate.
Test material and method:
1. specimen: Fusaimi (A771726)
2. The National Center for Drug Screening's sample number: S01160
3. Strain: BJ-01 (deriving from microorganism epidemic research institute of Beijing Academy of Military Sciences)
4. experiment place: Shanghai disease prevention and the P3 of control centre laboratory
5. the specimen unit of providing: Xinkai Co Ltd of Medicinal and Chemical Intermediates (Shanghai)
6. sample treatment: sample is dissolved in culture fluid or DMSO, is made into suitable initial concentration, 5 times of dilutions, 3 dilution factors.
7. method of testing: the Vero-E6 cell inoculation in 96 well culture plates, is put 37 ℃, 5%CO
2Cultivate, behind the SARS virus infection cell, add the sample of different diluted concentrations respectively, if observed result under contrast of virus control, cell and sample contrast, the every day mirror, record CPE, and, carries out sample anti-SARS virus active function and calculating and evaluation with reference to contrast with dimethyl diaminophenazine chloride dyeing mensuration OD value.
Test result: sample S01160
Cytopathy political reform (CPE):, do not see tangible disengaging, but cell quantity what do not compare with "-" expression cell attachment complete form; With "+" expression cytopathy degree,<25%+, 25%~50%++, 50%~75%+++,>75%++++.
Infected cytoprotective rate; By comparing the OD value of virus control, cell contrast and sample contrast, calculation sample is to the protection activity of virus infected cell, protective rate>EC
20Tentatively be considered to sample to being had the certain protection effect, antiviral activity is arranged by the cell of viral infection.
*Sample cell toxicity: if the cytotoxicity of sample and cell contrast ratio are greater than 50 (>CC
50) time, do not estimate and protective rate calculating to CPE.
The experiment preliminary conclusion: the sample product S01160 of institute sees anti-SARS virus, the infected cell activity effect of protection a little less than having when 100 μ g/ml concentration in in-vitro screening model.