Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease that causes fever and severe joint pain for which there is no direct acting drug treatments. Vinyl sulfone SGC-NSP2PRO-1 (3) was identified as a potent inhibitor of the nsP2 cysteine protease (nsP2pro) that reduced viral titer against infectious isolates of Chikungunya and other alphaviruses. The covalent warhead in 3 captured the active site C478 and inactivated nsP2pro with a k/K ratio of 5950 M s. The vinyl sulfone 3 was inactive across a panel of 23 other cysteine proteases and demonstrated remarkable proteome-wide selectivity by two chemoproteomic methods. A negative control analog SGC-NSP2PRO-1N (4) retained the isoxazole core and covalent warhead but demonstrated > 100-fold decrease in enzyme inhibition. Both 3 and 4 were stable across a wide range of pH in solution and upon prolonged storage as solids. Vinyl sulfone 3 and its negative control 4 will find utility as high-quality chemical probes to study the role of the nsP2pro in cellular studies of alphaviral replication and virulence.
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