479 results about "Virus inhibitors" patented technology

Disclosed are compounds of formula I

or a stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, U, W, X, R¹, R², R⁶, R⁷, R³⁰ and R³¹ are as described above in the specification.

Also disclosed is the method of inhibiting aspartyl protease, and in particular, the methods of treating cardiovascular diseases, cognitive and neurodegenerative diseases. Also disclosed are methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases using the compounds of formula I in combination with a cholinesterase inhibitor or a muscarinic m₁ agonist or m₂ antagonist.

Methods for modulating proteasome activity in a subject is provided. Proteasome activity is modulated by administering a therapeutically effective amount of proteasome modulating pharmacological agent to a subject. In a preferred embodiment, the proteasome modulating pharmacological agent is a protease inhibitor. In another aspect, a screening assay for detecting and identifying proteasome modulating pharmacological agents to modulate proteasome activity in a subject is also provided.

The present invention discloses compounds of formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof:

which inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3-NS4A protease. Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.

The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic domain that can act extracellularly to prevent infection of the target cell by a pathogen, such as a virus. Preferred target cells are epithelial cells. The invention provides compositions and methods for preventing viral diseases, such as influenza, using compounds having anchoring domains that can bind target cells linked to enzymatic activities that can act extracellularly to interfere with viral infection of target cells. The invention also provides compositions and methods for preventing viral diseases such as influenza using compounds having anchoring domains that can bind target cells linked to protease inhibitors that can act extracellularly to interfere with viral infection of target cells.

The present invention discloses compounds of formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof:

which inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3-NS4A protease. Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.

The invention relates to sulfonamide-containing hydroxyethylamine protease inhibitor compounds, their process of making, composition and method of use for inhibiting retroviral proteases such as human immunodeficiency virus.

Chimeric proteins are expressed, secreted or released by a bacterium to immunize against or treat a parasite, infectious disease or malignancy. The delivery vector may also be attenuated, non-pathogenic, low pathogenic, or a probiotic bacterium. The chimeric proteins include chimeras of, e.g., phage coat and/or colicin proteins, bacterial toxins and/or enzymes, autotransporter peptides, lytic peptides, multimerization domains, and/or membrane transducing (ferry) peptides. The active portion of the immunogenic chimeric proteins can include antigens against a wide range of parasites and infectious agents, cancers, Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases, and have enhanced activity when secreted or released by the bacteria, and/or have direct anti-parasite or infectious agent activity. The activity of the secreted proteins is further increased by co-expression of a protease inhibitor that prevents degradation of the effector peptides. Addition of an antibody binding or antibody-degrading protein further prevents the premature elimination of the vector and enhances the immune response.

A deuterated α-ketoamido steric specific compound of the formula

wherein D denotes a deuterium atom on a steric specific carbon atom.

The present invention relates to a combination therapy for treating an HIV infection or inhibiting integrase comprising (S)-6-(3-Chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-(1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl)-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (“Compound A”) or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate or salt thereof in combination with at least one other anti-HIV agent. In some embodiments of the present invention, the other anti-HIV agents are chosen from reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the other anti-HIV agents are chosen from AZT, 3TC, PMPA, efavirenz, indinavir, nelfinavir, a combination of AZT/3TC, and a combination of PMPA/3TC. Since Compound A has a high inhibitory activity specific for integrases, when used in combinations with other anti-HIV agents it can provide a combination therapy with fewer side effects for humans.

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of viral infections comprising as an active principle at least one imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine derivative having the general formula (Z): (formula). The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of compounds according to the invention having above mentioned general formula and their use as a medicine or to treat or prevent viral infections.

Stabilized compositions of natriuretic peptides comprise the peptide and an effective stabilizing amount of (i) an alkyl or aryl sulfonyl fluoride protease inhibitor, or (ii) benzamidine:

This invention provides methods for the localized delivery of supplemented tissue sealants, wherein the supplemented tissue sealants comprise at least one composition which is selected from one or more antibodies, analgesics, anticoagulants, anti-inflammatory compounds, antimicrobial compositions, antiproliferatives, cytokines, cytotoxins, drugs, growth factors, interferons, hormones, lipids, demineralized bone or bone morphogenetic proteins, cartilage inducing factors, oligonucleotides polymers, polysaccharides, polypeptides, protease inhibitors, vasoconstrictors or vasodilators, vitamins, minerals, stabilizers and the like. Further provided are methods of using the site-specific supplemented tissue sealants, including preparation of a biomaterial.

The invention relates to a method for producing a soybean peptide. In the method, fermented soybean meal is taken as a raw material and then animal-derived protease is utilized to produce the soybean peptide. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) enzymolyzing liquid, namely mixing the fermented soybean meal and water in a weight ratio of 1:(4-8), adding trypsinase, and preserving heat and enzymolyzing; 2) killing enzyme at high temperature; 3) filtering, namely filtering and separating enzymatic hydrolysate to obtain crude soybean protein; 4) decolorizing and deodorizing; 5) refining; and 6) spray-drying, and sterilizing to obtain a finished product, wherein the decolorization and deodorization are realized through filtration by a pretreated macroporous resin. The method has theadvantages that: 1) the fermented soybean meal is taken as the raw material, so that a protease inhibitor in the raw material is eliminated; 2) the prehydrolysis of soybean protein in the fermented soybean meal can be completed; and 3) the amount of the additional enzyme is reduced greatly, so that the cost is effectively reduced and the higher hydrolysis rate is obtained.

The present invention discloses compounds of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof:

which inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3-NS4A protease. Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.

Described herein are protease inhibitors, variants thereof and methods for their production.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a natural-tissue-derived decellularized and decalcified bone material. According to the method, any bone tissue of a mammal is treated with a protease inhibitor-containing normal saline buffer, an organic solvent, Tirton X-containing PBS (phosphate buffer saline), SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfonate)-containing PBS, pancreatin-containing PBS, deoxyribonuclease-containing PBS, an EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) isotonic solution and ultrasonic waves, and the decellularized and decalcified bone material is obtained. Cancellous bones and cortical bones can be decellularized completely and simultaneously, the conditions are mild, damage to an ECM (extracellular matrix) is avoided, rapidness and stability are realized, and the obtained decellularized and decalcified bone material has the advantages of good biocompatibility, high plasticity, high biomechanical strength and the like and can be used for clinically repairing bone regeneration and repair disorder such as bone defects, nonunion and the like caused by various causes.

The present invention relates to the providing of a method for preparing a stool sample that enables a nucleic acid in a stool to be stably preserved without requiring a complex procedure, a solution for preparing a stool sample, a stool collection kit used in that method, and a method for recovering and analyzing a nucleic acid in a stool using a stool sample prepared using the preparation method of the present invention. A method for preparing a stool sample according to the present invention is a method for preparing a stool sample being used for analyzing a nucleic acid contained in the stool, and is characterized in that a collected stool is mixed with a solution having a protease inhibitor as an active ingredient.

Disclosed are medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical kits, and methods based on combinations of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor and an aldo-keto reductase (AKR) competitor, for concurrent or consecutive administration in treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of HCV, treating disorders associated with HCV, or inhibiting cathepsin activity in a subject.