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Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) reduces zebrafish mortality from influenza infection: Super-resolution microscopy reveals CPC interference with multiple protein interactions with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in immune function

Prakash Raut, Sasha R. Weller, Bright Obeng, Brandy L. Soos, Bailey E. West, Christian M. Potts, Suraj Sangroula, Marissa S. Kinney, John E. Burnell, Benjamin L. King, Julie A. Gosse, Samuel T. Hess
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463687
Prakash Raut
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Sasha R. Weller
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Bright Obeng
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Brandy L. Soos
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Bailey E. West
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Christian M. Potts
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Suraj Sangroula
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Marissa S. Kinney
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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John E. Burnell
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Benjamin L. King
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Julie A. Gosse
2Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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  • For correspondence: Julie.gosse@maine.edu Samuel.hess@maine.edu
Samuel T. Hess
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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  • For correspondence: Julie.gosse@maine.edu Samuel.hess@maine.edu
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The COVID-19 pandemic raises significance for a potential influenza therapeutic compound, cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), which has been extensively used in personal care products as a positively-charged quaternary ammonium antibacterial agent. CPC is currently in clinical trials to assess its effects on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) morbidity. Two published studies have provided mouse and human data indicating that CPC may alleviate influenza infection, and here we show that CPC (0.1 μM, 1 hour) reduces zebrafish mortality and viral load following influenza infection. However, CPC mechanisms of action upon viral-host cell interaction are currently unknown. We have utilized super-resolution fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy to probe the mode of CPC action. Reduction in density of influenza viral protein hemagglutinin (HA) clusters is known to reduce influenza infectivity: here, we show that CPC (at non-cytotoxic doses, 5-10 µM) reduces HA density and number of HA molecules per cluster within the plasma membrane of NIH-3T3 mouse fibroblasts. HA is known to colocalize with the negatively-charged mammalian lipid phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2); here, we show that nanoscale co-localization of HA with the PIP2-binding Pleckstrin homology (PH) reporter in the plasma membrane is diminished by CPC. CPC also dramatically displaces the PIP2-binding protein myristoylated alanine-rich C-kinase substrate (MARCKS) from the plasma membrane of rat RBL-2H3 mast cells; this disruption of PIP2 is correlated with inhibition of mast cell degranulation. Together, these findings offer a PIP2-focused mechanism underlying CPC disruption of influenza and suggest potential pharmacological use of this drug as an influenza therapeutic to reduce global deaths from viral disease.

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Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) reduces zebrafish mortality from influenza infection: Super-resolution microscopy reveals CPC interference with multiple protein interactions with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in immune function
Prakash Raut, Sasha R. Weller, Bright Obeng, Brandy L. Soos, Bailey E. West, Christian M. Potts, Suraj Sangroula, Marissa S. Kinney, John E. Burnell, Benjamin L. King, Julie A. Gosse, Samuel T. Hess
bioRxiv 2021.10.08.463687; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463687
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Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) reduces zebrafish mortality from influenza infection: Super-resolution microscopy reveals CPC interference with multiple protein interactions with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in immune function
Prakash Raut, Sasha R. Weller, Bright Obeng, Brandy L. Soos, Bailey E. West, Christian M. Potts, Suraj Sangroula, Marissa S. Kinney, John E. Burnell, Benjamin L. King, Julie A. Gosse, Samuel T. Hess
bioRxiv 2021.10.08.463687; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463687

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