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| | Antiviral Assay |
| Description: | A cytopathetic effect (CPE) protection assay was performed to determine the ability of a compound to protect the cells from viral infection and thus the CPE induced by viral infection. 96-Well plates were first seeded with 3×10 HEp-2 cells per well in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). One day after the cells were seeded, they were preincubated with serial dilutions of compounds prepared in 100 μL assay medium (DMEM mixed with F12 medium at a 1:1 ratio, supplemented with 2% FBS and 1 mM sodium pyruvate) for 1 hour at 37° C. 100 μL of assay medium containing 0.2 multiplicity of infection (MOI) of RSV was then added to each well of cells. In addition to wells containing infected cells incubated with compounds, each plate also contained replicates of two kinds of controls: (1) Virus control contained cells infected with 0.2 MOI of RSV in assay medium, (2) Uninfected cell control contained cells incubated with assay medium only. After 4 days of incubation at 37° C., the viability of cells was assessed using MTT (Thiazolyl blue tetrazolium bromide, Sigma). A stock solution of MTT, at a concentration of 4 mg/mL in phosphate-buffered saline, was added to all wells at 25 μL per well. Plates were further incubated for 4 hours, and each well was then treated with 50 μL of a solution containing 20% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and 0.02 N HCl. After an overnight incubation, the plates were measured on a BioTek microtiter plate reader at wavelengths of 570 nm and 650 nm. The MTT detection is based on the fact that viable (uninfected) cells can reduce the tetrazolium salts into colored formazan products, which can then be quantitated by spectrometry. Based on the spectrometric absorbance of each sample, the percent of protection from CPE, which is an indicator of protection from viral infection, can be calculated for each compound and the 50% effective concentrations (EC50) can be calculated using a nonlinear regression curve fitting equation provided by the GraphPad Prism 4 software. Using the above-described assay, compounds of the present disclosure showed obvious inhibitory activities against RSV replication. |
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