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. 2019 Feb 19;264:22–31. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2019.02.011

Table 2.

Drug repurposing in antiviral discovery: Promising candidates.

Drug Approved indication Viruses targeted IC50 References
Digoxin and derivatives Heart conditions HIV-1 45nM (Laird et al., 2014; Wong et al., 2013)
HSV, HCMV 0.5 μM 0.02 μM (Dodson et al., 2007; Hartley et al., 2006; Kapoor et al., 2012)
huAdV NR (Grosso et al., 2017)
HBV >100 nM (Okuyama-Dobashi et al., 2015)
CHIKV 48.8 nM (Ashbrook et al., 2016)
MERS-CoV NR (Burkard et al., 2015)
Chloroquine Malaria CHIKV 50 nM (Sourisseau et al., 2007)
DENV 2.9-3.6 μM (Boonyasuppayakorn et al., 2014; Farias et al., 2014)
SARS- and MERS-CoV 4.1 μM 3 μM (Keyaerts et al., 2004)
Influenza virus 3.6 μM (Di Trani et al., 2007; Ooi et al., 2006; Yan et al., 2013)
CCHFV 28-43 μM (Ferraris et al., 2015)
ZIKV 9.8-14.2 μM (Delvecchio et al., 2016; Li et al., 2017; Shiryaev et al., 2017)
HIV-1 1-10 μM (Sperber et al., 1993; Tsai et al., 1990)
HAV NR (Bishop, 1998)
EBOV 4.7-16 μM (Madrid et al., 2013)
Cyclosporin A Immune suppressive therapy HIV-1 2.5 μM (Franke et al., 1994; Thali et al., 1994; Wainberg et al., 1988)
HBV NR (Watashi et al., 2014)
HPV 2 μM (Bienkowska-Haba et al., 2009)
HCV 0.5 μM (Kaul et al., 2009; Nakagawa et al., 2004; Yang et al., 2008)
VSV NR (Bose et al., 2003)
VV NR (Damaso and Moussatche, 1998)
Influenza A virus 1.5-1.8 μM (Hamamoto et al., 2013; Li et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2009, 2012a; Liu et al., 2012b; Ma et al., 2016; Schiltknecht and Ada, 1985)
SARS-CoV 2.1-3.1 μM (de Wilde et al., 2011; Pfefferle et al., 2011)
Sunitinib and other tyrosine kinase inhibitors Cancer HCV 0.04-0.2 μM (Bekerman et al., 2017; Neveu et al., 2012, 2015)
HIV NR (Guo et al., 2013)
HCMV 9.05-10.3 μM (Cai et al., 2014)
DENV NR (Bekerman et al., 2017)
EBOV NR (Bekerman et al., 2017)
Silver nanoparticles Antibacterial HSV NR (Baram-Pinto et al., 2009)
Influenza virus NR (Papp et al., 2010; Xiang et al., 2013, 2011)
HBV NR (Lu et al., 2008)
HIV-1 0.44-0.91 mg/mL (Elechiguerra et al., 2005; Lara et al., 2010a, b; Sun et al., 2005)
RVFV NR (Borrego et al., 2016)
DENV NR (Murugan et al., 2016; Sujitha et al., 2015)
Tacaribe virus NR (Speshock et al., 2010)
Mycophenolic acid Antibacterial HIV 0.1-0.5 μM (Chapuis et al., 2000; Kaur et al., 2005; Margolis et al., 1999)
HCV 10.4 μM (Henry et al., 2006; Pan et al., 2012)
ZIKV 0.1-1 μM (Barrows et al., 2016)
DENV, WNV, YFV 0.4 μM 0.9 μg/mL NR (Diamond et al., 2002; Takhampunya et al., 2006)
Minocycline Antibacterial HIV 40 μg/mL (Lemaitre et al., 1990; Szeto et al., 2010; Zink et al., 2005)
WNV 8.1-11.2 μg/mL (Michaelis et al., 2007)
DENV NR (Lai et al., 2018; Leela et al., 2016)
JEV NR (Mishra and Basu, 2008)
Chlorpromazine hydrochloride Antipsychotic CCHFV 10.8-15.7 μM (Ferraris et al., 2015)
MERS- and SARS-CoV 4.9 μM 8.8 μM (de Wilde et al., 2014; Dyall et al., 2014)
Diphenoxilate Anti-peristaltic EBOV, LASV, MARV 50 μM NR NR (Madrid et al., 2013)

Abbreviations: CCHFV Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus; CHIKV chikungunya virus; HCMV human cytomegalovirus; DENV dengue virus; EBOV Ebola virus; HAV hepatitis A virus; HBV hepatitis B virus; HCV hepatitis C Virus; HIV human immunodeficiency virus; HPV human papilloma virus; HSV herpes simplex virus; huAdV human adenovirus; JEV japanesse encephalitis virus; LASV Lassa virus; MARV Marburg virus; MERS-CoV Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; RVFV Rift Valley fever virus; SARS-CoV severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus; VSV vesicular stomatitis virus; VV vaccinia virus; WNV West Nile virus; YFV yellow fever virus; ZIKV zika virus.