Discovery of multiple lead compounds as M2 inhibitors through the screening of a focused library of scaffold-hops

摘要: It is urgent to discover new anti-influenza drugs considering the threat of so called swine flu and Spanish flu. Though Adamantane derivatives are the only M2 inhibitors as anti-influenza virus A drugs, they are limited to use in the US due to drug resistant. Herein we reported that multiple lead compounds as M2 inhibitors were rapidly generated through the screening of focused library designed with scaffold-hopping strategy based on Amantadine.