A combination of MD-derived pharmacophores and structure-based strategy identifies dual allosteric inhibitors of NS2B-NS3 proteases in Zika and West Nile viruses.
Starting from the crystal structure of a Zika virus (ZIKV) NS2B-NS3 protease with bound allosteric inhibitor, we generated dynamic pharmacophore models derived from representative molecular dynamics (MD) conformations to capture key interaction patterns. These models guided a pharmacophore-based virtual screening of co...