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Tran TT, Fanucci GE. Natural Polymorphisms D60E and I62V Stabilize a Closed Conformation in HIV-1 Protease in the Absence of an Inhibitor or Substrate. Viruses 2024; 16:236. [PMID: 38400012 PMCID: PMC10892587 DOI: 10.3390/v16020236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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HIV infection remains a global health issue plagued by drug resistance and virological failure. Natural polymorphisms (NPs) contained within several African and Brazilian protease (PR) variants have been shown to induce a conformational landscape of more closed conformations compared to the sequence of subtype B prevalent in North America and Western Europe. Here we demonstrate through experimental pulsed EPR distance measurements and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations that the two common NPs D60E and I62V found within subtypes F and H can induce a closed conformation when introduced into HIV-1PR subtype B. Specifically, D60E alters the conformation in subtype B through the formation of a salt bridge with residue K43 contained within the nexus between the flap and hinge region of the HIV-1 PR fold. On the other hand, I62V modulates the packing of the hydrophobic cluster of the cantilever and fulcrum, also resulting in a more closed conformation.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Tran TT, Liu Z, Fanucci GE. Conformational landscape of non-B variants of HIV-1 protease: A pulsed EPR study. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 532:219-224. [PMID: 32863004 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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HIV infection is a global health epidemic with current FDA-approved HIV-1 Protease inhibitors (PIs) designed against subtype B protease, yet they are used in HIV treatment world-wide regardless of patient HIV classification. In this study, double electron-electron resonance (DEER) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy was utilized to gain insights in how natural polymorphisms in several African and Brazilian protease (PR) variants affect the conformational landscape both in the absence and presence of inhibitors. Findings show that Subtypes F and H HIV-1 PR adopt a primarily closed conformation in the unbound state with two secondary mutations, D60E and I62V, postulated to be responsible for the increased probability for closed conformation. In contrast, subtype D, CRF_AG, and CRF_BF HIV-1 PR adopt a primarily semi-open conformation, as observed for PI-naïve-subtype B when unbound by substrate or inhibitor. The impact that inhibitor binding has on shifting the conformational land scape of these variants is also characterized, where analysis provides classification of inhibitor induced shifts away from the semi-open state into weak, moderate and strong effects. The findings are compared to those for prior studies of inhibitor induced conformational shifts in PI-naïve Subtype B, C and CRF_AE.
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- Trang T Tran
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
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McConnell RM, Inapudi K, Kadasala N, Yarlagadda K, Velusamy P, McConnell MS, Green A, Trana C, Sayyar K, McConnell JS. New cathepsin D inhibitor library utilizing hydroxyethyl isosteres with cyclic tertiary amines. Med Chem 2013; 8:1146-54. [PMID: 22830497 DOI: 10.2174/1573406411208061146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2011] [Revised: 05/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The design and synthesis of hydroxyethylamine isosteres as inhibitors of cathepsin D based on SAR data have been accomplished. A library of 96 of these hydroxyethylamine isosteres are described and many have proven to be very potent inhibitors of human cathepsin D activity as measured using a fluorometric assay technique, via peptide substrate Ac-Glu-Glu(Edans)-Lys-Pro-Ile-Cys-Phe-Phe-Arg-Leu-Gly-Lys(Methyl Red)-Glu-NH(2). Compounds showing strongest inhibition of cathepsin D activity were those that contain a hydroxyethyl-N'-2- or N'-(4-chlorophenyl)piperazine moiety (IC(50) values range from 0.55 to 8.5 nM), with N'-(2-pyrimidyl)piperizine (IC(50) values range from 0.5 to 21.6 nM), with N-N'- L-piperazinocolinamide (IC(50) values range from 0.001 - 0.25 nM), or N-N'-L-piperazinocolin-N-methylamide (IC(50) values range from 0.015 - 7.3 nM).
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- Rose M McConnell
- Department of Chemistry, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 61455, USA.
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Rossotti R, Foglieni B, Molteni C, Gatti M, Guarnori I, La Russa E, Prati D, Orani A. A cluster of patients with recombinant B/F HIV-1 infection: epidemiological, clinical, and virological aspects. J Med Virol 2011; 83:1493-8. [PMID: 21739437 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Migratory processes have caused changes in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemiology and non-B subtypes are now playing an increasing role. In a cohort of 553 HIV-infected outpatients tested to identify non-B isolates, the largest group consisted of 13 subjects with a recombinant B/F form (prevalence 2.4%). Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses described a B/F recombinant clade with anomalous breakpoints that did not allow it to be classified as CRF12_BF. Viral load was not quantified efficiently because of a mismatch in the primers and probes used by commercial assays. An assessment of the clinical management, and epidemiological, immunological, and virological characteristics of these patients, who were receiving non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)- or protease inhibitor (PI)-based regimens, showed that the immunological and virological mismatch delayed the start of treatment by a mean of 6.8 months. Therapy was started in nine patients. Both NNRTI- and PI-based regimens led to full virological suppression after a mean 36 weeks of treatment; the PI-based regimens proved to be more effective in terms of immunological recovery (1,341 vs. 544 CD4+ cells/mm(3) ). The spread of non-B subtypes is increasing throughout the world but their response to treatment is still unclear. PIs and NNRTIs are effective but further tests are needed to allow the more efficient recognition of these viral strains and establish how they should be treated.
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- Roberto Rossotti
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, AO "Alessandro Manzoni", Lecco, Italy. ;
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Robbins AH, Coman RM, Bracho-Sanchez E, Fernandez MA, Gilliland CT, Li M, Agbandje-McKenna M, Wlodawer A, Dunn BM, McKenna R. Structure of the unbound form of HIV-1 subtype A protease: comparison with unbound forms of proteases from other HIV subtypes. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION D, BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2010; 66:233-42. [PMID: 20179334 PMCID: PMC2827345 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444909054298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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The crystal structure of the unbound form of HIV-1 subtype A protease (PR) has been determined to 1.7 A resolution and refined as a homodimer in the hexagonal space group P6(1) to an R(cryst) of 20.5%. The structure is similar in overall shape and fold to the previously determined subtype B, C and F PRs. The major differences lie in the conformation of the flap region. The flaps in the crystal structures of the unbound subtype B and C PRs, which were crystallized in tetragonal space groups, are either semi-open or wide open. In the present structure of subtype A PR the flaps are found in the closed position, a conformation that would be more anticipated in the structure of HIV protease complexed with an inhibitor. The amino-acid differences between the subtypes and their respective crystal space groups are discussed in terms of the differences in the flap conformations.
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- Arthur H. Robbins
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
- Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Fernández-García A, Cuevas MT, Vinogradova A, Rakhmanova A, Pérez-Álvarez L, de Castro RO, Osmanov S, Thomson MM. Near full-length genome characterization of a newly identified HIV type 1 subtype F variant circulating in St. Petersburg, Russia. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2009; 25:1187-91. [PMID: 19943791 DOI: 10.1089/aid.2009.0140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We report the near full-length genome characterization of an HIV-1 subtype F virus (D88_845) collected in St. Petersburg, Russia, from a 25-year-old Russian woman perinatally infected in 1982. In a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, the genome sequence branched basally to the subsubtype F1 clade. In partial sequences, D88_845 clustered with 13 other subtype F sequences from Russia, corresponding to gag (n = 2), pol (n = 3), and env (n = 8) segments. At least 11 of these sequences are from samples collected in St. Petersburg from heterosexually infected Russian individuals. In each of these segments, the Russian viruses formed a monophyletic cluster that branched as a sister clade of the F1 subsubtype. One sequence from Belgium branched with D88_845 with a posterior probability of 0.99. This is the first report on the identification and near full-length genome characterization of the subtype F variant circulating in St. Petersburg, which is closely related to, but distinct from, the F1 subsubtype.
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- Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Botkin's Infectious Diseases Hospital, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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