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Inhibition of hepatitis C virus replication by antimonial compounds.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (2005-09-29)
Der-Ren Hwang, Ren-Kuo Lin, Guang-Zhou Leu, Tiao-Yin Lin, Tzu-Wen Lien, Ming-Chen Yu, Chau-Ting Yeh, John T-A Hsu
ABSTRACT

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide health problem causing serious complications, such as liver cirrhosis and hepatoma. Alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) or its polyethylene glycol-modified form combined with ribavirin is the only recommended therapy. However, an alternative therapy is needed due to the unsatisfactory cure rate of the IFN-based therapy. Using a modified reporter assay based on the HCV subgenomic-replicon system, we found that sodium stibogluconate (SSG), a compound used for leishmania treatment, suppressed HCV replication. We have previously reported that SSG is effective at inhibiting HCV replication in a cell line permissive for HCV infection/replication and in an ex vivo assay using fresh human liver slices obtained from patients infected with HCV (26). In this study, we show that the SSG 50% inhibitory dose for HCV replication is 0.2 to 0.3 mg/ml (equivalent to 345 to 517 microM of Sb) in the HCV subgenomic-replicon system. We also found that SSG and IFN-alpha exert a strong synergistic anti-HCV effect in both the traditional isobologram analysis and the median effect principle (CalcuSyn analysis). The combination of SSG and IFN-alpha could sustain the antiviral response better than SSG or IFN-alpha alone. The results suggest that SSG may be a good drug candidate for use in combination with other therapeutics, such as IFN-alpha and ribavirin, to treat HCV infection.

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