Targeting Lipid Rafts—A Potential Therapy for COVID-19

Frontiers in Immunology

Dmitri Sviridov²  Yury I. Miller³  Michael Bukrinsky⁴  Alan T. Remaley⁵  Rami A. Ballout⁵ 

[1] Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia;Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States;Lipoprotein Metabolism Section, Translational Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States;

关键词: COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2;    coronavirus;    lipid rafts;    inflammation;    lipids;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fimmu.2020.574508

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

COVID-19 is a global pandemic currently in an acute phase of rapid expansion. While public health measures remain the most effective protection strategy at this stage, when the peak passes, it will leave in its wake important health problems. Historically, very few viruses have ever been eradicated. Instead, the virus may persist in communities causing recurrent local outbreaks of the acute infection as well as several chronic diseases that may arise from the presence of a “suppressed” virus or as a consequence of the initial exposure. An ideal solution would be an anti-viral medication that (i) targets multiple stages of the viral lifecycle, (ii) is insensitive to frequent changes of viral phenotype due to mutagenesis, (iii) has broad spectrum, (iv) is safe and (v) also targets co-morbidities of the infection. In this Perspective we discuss a therapeutic approach that owns these attributes, namely “lipid raft therapy.” Lipid raft therapy is an approach aimed at reducing the abundance and structural modifications of host lipid rafts or at targeted delivery of therapeutics to the rafts. Lipid rafts are the sites of the initial binding, activation, internalization and cell-to-cell transmission of SARS-CoV-2. They also are key regulators of immune and inflammatory responses, dysregulation of which is characteristic to COVID-19 infection. Lipid raft therapy was successful in targeting many viral infections and inflammatory disorders, and can potentially be highly effective for treatment of COVID-19.

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