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Cokol M, Chua HN, Tasan M, Mutlu B, Weinstein ZB, Suzuki Y, Nergiz ME, Costanzo M, Baryshnikova A, Giaever G, Nislow C, Myers CL, Andrews BJ, Boone C, Roth FP. Systematic exploration of synergistic drug pairs. Mol Syst Biol 2011; 7:544. [PMID: 22068327 PMCID: PMC3261710 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2011] [Accepted: 08/11/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Drug synergy allows a therapeutic effect to be achieved with lower doses of component drugs. Drug synergy can result when drugs target the products of genes that act in parallel pathways ('specific synergy'). Such cases of drug synergy should tend to correspond to synergistic genetic interaction between the corresponding target genes. Alternatively, 'promiscuous synergy' can arise when one drug non-specifically increases the effects of many other drugs, for example, by increased bioavailability. To assess the relative abundance of these drug synergy types, we examined 200 pairs of antifungal drugs in S. cerevisiae. We found 38 antifungal synergies, 37 of which were novel. While 14 cases of drug synergy corresponded to genetic interaction, 92% of the synergies we discovered involved only six frequently synergistic drugs. Although promiscuity of four drugs can be explained under the bioavailability model, the promiscuity of Tacrolimus and Pentamidine was completely unexpected. While many drug synergies correspond to genetic interactions, the majority of drug synergies appear to result from non-specific promiscuous synergy.
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- Murat Cokol
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Synthetic Biology and Bioenergy, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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Reduction in severity of a herpes simplex virus type 1 murine infection by treatment with a ribozyme targeting the UL20 gene RNA. J Virol 2008; 82:7467-74. [PMID: 18508896 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02720-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hammerhead ribozymes were designed to target mRNA of several essential herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) genes. A ribozyme specific for the late gene U(L)20 was packaged in an adenovirus vector (Ad-U(L)20 Rz) and evaluated for its capacity to inhibit the viral replication of several HSV-1 strains, including that of the wild-type HSV-1 (17syn+ and KOS) and several acycloguanosine-resistant strains (PAAr5, tkLTRZ1, and ACGr4) in tissue culture. The Ad-U(L)20 Rz was also tested for its ability to block an HSV-1 infection, using the mouse footpad model. Mouse footpads were treated with either the Ad-U(L)20 Rz or an adenoviral vector expressing green fluorescent protein (Ad-GFP) and then infected immediately thereafter with 10(4) PFU of HSV-1 strain 17syn+. Ad-U(L)20 ribozyme treatment consistently led to a 90% rate of protection for mice from lethal HSV-1 infection, while the survival rate in the control groups was less than 45%. Consistent with this protective effect, treatment with the Ad-U(L)20 Rz reduced the viral DNA load in the feet, the dorsal root ganglia, and the spinal cord relative to that of the Ad-GFP-treated animals. This study suggests that ribozymes targeting essential genes of the late kinetic class may represent a new therapeutic strategy for inhibiting HSV infection.
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Pesola JM, Coen DM. In vivo fitness and virulence of a drug-resistant herpes simplex virus 1 mutant. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:1410-1414. [PMID: 17412967 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82787-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Two important issues regarding a virus mutant that is resistant to an antiviral drug are its ability to replicate in animal hosts (in vivo fitness) relative to other genetic variants, including wild type, and its ability to cause disease. These issues have been investigated for a herpes simplex virus 1 mutant that is resistant to thiourea compounds, which inhibit encapsidation of viral DNA. Following corneal inoculation of mice, the mutant virus replicated very similarly to its wild-type parent in the eye, trigeminal ganglion and brain. The mutant virus was as lethal to mice as its wild-type parent following this route of inoculation. Indeed, it exhibited increased virulence. Thus, unlike most drug-resistant virus mutants, this mutant retained in vivo fitness and virulence.
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- Jean M Pesola
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Huang L, Ishii KK, Zuccola H, Gehring AM, Hwang CB, Hogle J, Coen DM. The enzymological basis for resistance of herpesvirus DNA polymerase mutants to acyclovir: relationship to the structure of alpha-like DNA polymerases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:447-52. [PMID: 9892653 PMCID: PMC15156 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.2.447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Acyclovir (ACV), like many antiviral drugs, is a nucleoside analog. In vitro, ACV triphosphate inhibits herpesvirus DNA polymerase by means of binding, incorporation into primer/template, and dead-end complex formation in the presence of the next deoxynucleoside triphosphate. However, it is not known whether this mechanism operates in vivo. To address this and other questions, we analyzed eight mutant polymerases encoded by drug-resistant viruses, each altered in a region conserved among alpha-like DNA polymerases. We measured Km and kcat values for dGTP and ACV triphosphate incorporation and Ki values of ACV triphosphate for dGTP incorporation for each mutant. Certain mutants showed increased Km values for ACV triphosphate incorporation, suggesting a defect in inhibitor binding. Other mutants showed reduced kcat values for ACV triphosphate incorporation, suggesting a defect in incorporation of inhibitor into DNA, while the rest of the mutants exhibited both altered km and kcat values. In most cases, the fold increase in Ki of ACV triphosphate for dGTP incorporation relative to wild-type polymerase was similar to fold resistance conferred by the mutation in vivo; however, one mutation conferred a much greater increase in resistance than in Ki. The effects of mutations on enzyme kinetics could be explained by using a model of an alpha-like DNA polymerase active site bound to primer/template and inhibitor. The results have implications for mechanisms of action and resistance of antiviral nucleoside analogs in vivo, in particular for the importance of incorporation into DNA and for the functional roles of conserved regions of polymerases.
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- L Huang
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Pelosi E, Rozenberg F, Coen DM, Tyler KL. A herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase mutation that specifically attenuates neurovirulence in mice. Virology 1998; 252:364-72. [PMID: 9878615 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Herpes simplex virus can infect the mammalian brain causing lethal encephalitis (neurovirulence). Previously, herpes simplex virus mutants that are attenuated for neurovirulence have exhibited defects in replication in brain and/or blocks to replication in neuronal cells. We investigated the attenuation of neurovirulence of mutant PAAr5, which exhibits resistance to antiviral drugs due to altered viral DNA polymerase. Following intracerebral inoculation of 7-week-old CD1 mice, PAAr5 was 30-fold attenuated for neurovirulence compared to its wild-type parent. A drug-sensitive virus derived by marker rescue with DNA polymerase gene sequences exhibited neurovirulence that was essentially indistinguishable from that of wild-type virus, demonstrating that attenuation was due to a polymerase mutation. PAAr5 replicated in brain similarly to wild-type virus unlike another polymerase mutant, 615.8, that exhibited a similar degree of attenuation. The attenuation of PAAr5 was not associated with altered particle to PFU ratios nor with any obvious reductions in viral antigen expression in neurons, spread, histopathology, or TUNEL staining suggestive of apoptotic cells. Thus PAAr5 differs from other mutants that are attenuated for neurovirulence. Understanding how a polymerase mutation specifically attenuates neurovirulence may shed light on how herpes simplex virus can cause lethal encephalitis.
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- E Pelosi
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
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Jacobson JG, Chen SH, Cook WJ, Kramer MF, Coen DM. Importance of the herpes simplex virus UL24 gene for productive ganglionic infection in mice. Virology 1998; 242:161-9. [PMID: 9501052 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.9012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The UL24 gene of herpes simplex virus overlaps the viral thymidine kinase (tk) gene. Most previous studies of UL24 have examined UL24 mutants that have also contained tk and sometimes other mutations. To address the importance of UL24 for viral replication in cell culture and in infections of a mammalian host, we constructed a mutant virus containing a UL24 nonsense mutation that does not affect TK activity and a second mutant that contains clustered point mutations in UL24 and a mutation in tk that does not by itself affect the ability of the virus to replicate acutely in mouse ganglia or to reactivate from latent infection following corneal inoculation of mice. Both mutant viruses replicated in cells in culture and in the mouse eye, albeit less efficiently than wild type or control viruses. Both mutants were much more severely impaired for acute replication in trigeminal ganglia and for reactivation from latency following explant of these ganglia. Viral DNA and latency-associated transcripts were present, albeit at lower levels in ganglia infected with the nonsense mutant. These results indicate that UL24 is especially important for productive infection of mouse sensory ganglia and may have implications for the behaviors of certain tk mutants in pathogenesis.
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- J G Jacobson
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Pelosi E, Mulamba GB, Coen DM. Penciclovir and pathogenesis phenotypes of drug-resistant Herpes simplex virus mutants. Antiviral Res 1998; 37:17-28. [PMID: 9497069 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3542(97)00054-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We compared the penciclovir susceptibilities and pathogenesis phenotypes of mutants of Herpes simplex virus type 1 that are resistant to acyclovir and/or foscarnet. The mutants, which were derived from laboratory strain KOS, included six DNA polymerase mutants, a thymidine kinase negative mutant, a thymidine kinase partial mutant, and a double mutant. Two of four polymerase mutants not previously examined for penciclovir susceptibility exhibited modest resistance to this drug. A thymidine kinase negative mutant exhibited approximately 20-fold resistance while a thymidine kinase partial mutant was penciclovir-sensitive. Following intracerebral inoculation of 7-week old CD1 mice, the mutants ranged from exhibiting near wild-type neurovirulence (thymidine kinase partial) to modest attenuation (e.g. thymidine kinase negative) to more severe attenuation. Following corneal inoculation, three polymerase mutants exhibited modest deficits (relative to those of thymidine kinase negative mutants) in their abilities to replicate acutely in the ganglion and reactivate from latency. For mutant AraA(r)13, the deficit in ganglionic replication was shown to be due to its polymerase mutation by analysis of recombinant viruses derived by marker rescue. These results may have implications for issues of penciclovir action and resistance, for drug resistance in the clinic, and for the interactions of herpes viruses with the peripheral and central nervous systems.
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- E Pelosi
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Inactivated Actinobacillus suis in Synergy with Interferon-α Protects Mice against Herpes Simplex Virus-2 Infection. J Infect Chemother 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02489965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (TK) has been demonstrated to be important for reactivation from latency. Specifically, HSV latency-associated transcripts (LAT) are expressed during latent infection established by TK-negative (TK-) HSV mutants, but reactivation is minimal. TK- HSV, however, readily reactivated in the presence of exogenous thymidine (TdR) in explant medium [Tenser et al. (1996): Journal of Virology 70:1271-1276]. In the present report this was further studied by evaluating the effect of dipyridamole (DPM) on HSV reactivation. DPM is known to interfere with nucleoside transport. Inhibition of TdR-enhanced reactivation of TK- HSV and inhibition of reactivation of wild-type TK+ HSV were evaluated in an experimental mouse model of latency. Without DPM, TK- HSV reactivation was increased from 0% to 88% with TdR in explant medium, demonstrating TdR-enhanced reactivation of TK- HSV (as seen previously), TdR-enhanced reactivation of TK- HSV was decreased when DPM (25 or 50 microM) was also present, to 30%-60% and to 0%, respectively. Secondly, DPM also decreased reactivation of wild-type TK+ HSV. The reactivation frequency of latently infected dorsal root ganglia was 90% in standard medium (no added TdR), and this was decreased by DPM to 9% and 0%, respectively. Reactivation of trigeminal ganglia in standard medium was 100%, and this decreased to 59% and 23%, respectively. The possibility of a direct toxic effect of DPM on ganglion neurons to explain the results was unlikely. DPM had a modest antiviral effect on HSV replication in cell culture, and its efficacy in blocking reactivation may be related to this activity, probably by inhibition of nucleoside transport.
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- K A Hay
- Division of Neurology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, USA
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Tenser RB, Gaydos A, Hay KA. Reactivation of thymidine kinase-defective herpes simplex virus is enhanced by nucleoside. J Virol 1996; 70:1271-6. [PMID: 8551594 PMCID: PMC189942 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.2.1271-1276.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) mutants defective for thymidine kinase expression (TK-) have been reported to establish latent infection of sensory ganglia of mice, in that HSV latency-associated transcript is expressed, but to be defective for reactivation. In the present study, the mechanism of defective reactivation by TK- HSV was investigated. Latent infection established by each of three reactivation-defective HSV type 1 mutants was studied. Reactivation in explant culture was markedly enhanced by the addition of thymidine (dTdR) to the explant culture medium. Without added dTdR, reactivation occurred in 0 of 32 ganglia, while when dTdR (200 microM) was present, reactivation occurred in 32 of 37 ganglia (86%). Reactivation was minimal or did not occur after treatment with other nucleosides; specificity for dTdR would suggest the importance of dTdR nucleotide levels rather than more general nucleotide pool imbalance. Enhanced reactivation by dTdR was dose dependent and was blocked by acyclovir. While some degree of inhibition of TK- HSV by acyclovir may be expected, the complete block of dTdR-enhanced reactivation was unexpected. This result may suggest that HSV is particularly vulnerable during initial reactivation events. The mechanism of dTdR-enhanced reactivation of TK- HSV was further evaluated during in vivo infection by TK- HSV. For mice infected with TK- HSV, virus was undetectable in ganglia 3 days later. However, for mice infected with TK- HSV and treated with dTdR, virus was readily detected (2.8 x 10(3) PFU per ganglion). This result suggested that in vivo treatment with dTdR enhanced replication of TK- HSV in ganglion neurons. In turn, this suggests that in latently infected ganglia, dTdR-enhanced reactivation of TK- HSV occurred as a result of viral replication in neurons following initial reactivation events.
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- R B Tenser
- Division of Neurology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033, USA
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