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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Cross-Family Mechanistic Analysis of Plant Alkaloids Against Neglected Arboviruses and Related RNA Viruses.

Marcia Régis, Mario Fernando Sanchez Moreno, Hugo Germain, Natacha Mérindol, Isabel Desgagné-Penix

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marcia RégisDepartment of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics, and Forensic Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada.
Mario Fernando Sanchez MorenoDepartment of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics, and Forensic Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada.
Hugo GermainDepartment of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics, and Forensic Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7046-6194
Natacha MérindolDepartment of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics, and Forensic Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6235-6465
Isabel Desgagné-PenixDepartment of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics, and Forensic Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4355-5503

Funding

Canada Research Chairs CRC-2023 00353
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neglected arboviruses dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), yellow fever (YFV), Japanese encephalitis (JEV), and chikungunya collectively affect hundreds of millions of people annually, yet no specific antiviral drug has been approved for any of them. Alkaloids, nitrogen-containing specialized metabolites produced by diverse plant families, have emerged as a promising source of broad-spectrum antiviral scaffolds. This review compiles and critically analyzes over 100 alkaloid-virus pairs across several RNA virus families, providing a comparative mechanistic analysis. Lycorine, narciclasine, emetine, and berbamine, among others, exhibit potent activity against phylogenetically distant viruses, with the most potent activities reported against flaviviruses (narciclasine: EC

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AlkaloidsAntiviral AgentsArbovirusesPlantsRNA VirusesAnimalsHumansStructure-Activity RelationshipVirus ReplicationAlkaloidsAntiviral Agentsbroad-spectrum antiviralsflavivirusintegrated stress responsemechanism of actionneglected tropical diseasesribosomestructure-activity relationships

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PMID42588574
PMCPMC13468340

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