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Ahmad G, Sohail M, Bilal M, Rasool N, Qamar MU, Ciurea C, Marceanu LG, Misarca C. N-Heterocycles as Promising Antiviral Agents: A Comprehensive Overview. Molecules 2024; 29:2232. [PMID: 38792094 PMCID: PMC11123935 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29102232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
Abstract
Viruses are a real threat to every organism at any stage of life leading to extensive infections and casualties. N-heterocycles can affect the viral life cycle at many points, including viral entrance into host cells, viral genome replication, and the production of novel viral species. Certain N-heterocycles can also stimulate the host's immune system, producing antiviral cytokines and chemokines that can stop the reproduction of viruses. This review focused on recent five- or six-membered synthetic N-heterocyclic molecules showing antiviral activity through SAR analyses. The review will assist in identifying robust scaffolds that might be utilized to create effective antiviral drugs with either no or few side effects.
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- Gulraiz Ahmad
- Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (G.A.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (G.A.); (M.S.)
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China;
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- Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (G.A.); (M.S.)
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- Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan;
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania; (L.G.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania; (L.G.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500036 Brasov, Romania; (L.G.M.)
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Heravi MM, Zadsirjan V. Prescribed drugs containing nitrogen heterocycles: an overview. RSC Adv 2020; 10:44247-44311. [PMID: 35557843 PMCID: PMC9092475 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra09198g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 368] [Impact Index Per Article: 92.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Heteroatoms as well as heterocyclic scaffolds are frequently present as the common cores in a plethora of active pharmaceuticals natural products. Statistically, more than 85% of all biologically active compounds are heterocycles or comprise a heterocycle and most frequently, nitrogen heterocycles as a backbone in their complex structures. These facts disclose and emphasize the vital role of heterocycles in modern drug design and drug discovery. In this review, we try to present a comprehensive overview of top prescribed drugs containing nitrogen heterocycles, describing their pharmacological properties, medical applications and their selected synthetic pathways. It is worth mentioning that the reported examples are actually limited to current top selling drugs, being or containing N-heterocycles and their synthetic information has been extracted from both scientific journals and the wider patent literature.
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- Majid M Heravi
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Alzahra University PO Box 1993891176, Vanak Tehran Iran +98 21 88041344 +98 21 88044051
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Alzahra University PO Box 1993891176, Vanak Tehran Iran +98 21 88041344 +98 21 88044051
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Collings CK, Little DW, Schafer SJ, Anderson JN. HIV chromatin is a preferred target for drugs that bind in the DNA minor groove. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216515. [PMID: 31887110 PMCID: PMC6936835 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The HIV genome is rich in A but not G or U and deficient in C. This nucleotide bias controls HIV phenotype by determining the highly unusual composition of all major HIV proteins. The bias is also responsible for the high frequency of narrow DNA minor groove sites in the double-stranded HIV genome as compared to cellular protein coding sequences and the bulk of the human genome. Since drugs that bind in the DNA minor groove disrupt nucleosomes on sequences that contain closely spaced oligo-A tracts which are prevalent in HIV DNA because of its bias, it was of interest to determine if these drugs exert this selective inhibitory effect on HIV chromatin. To test this possibility, nucleosomes were reconstituted onto five double-stranded DNA fragments from the HIV-1 pol gene in the presence and in the absence of several minor groove binding drugs (MGBDs). The results demonstrated that the MGBDs inhibited the assembly of nucleosomes onto all of the HIV-1 segments in a manner that was proportional to the A-bias, but had no detectable effect on the formation of nucleosomes on control cloned fragments or genomic DNA from chicken and human. Nucleosomes preassembled onto HIV DNA were also preferentially destabilized by the drugs as evidenced by enhanced nuclease accessibility in physiological ionic strength and by the preferential loss of the histone octamer in hyper-physiological salt solutions. The drugs also selectively disrupted HIV-containing nucleosomes in yeast as revealed by enhanced nuclease accessibility of the in vivo assembled HIV chromatin and reductions in superhelical densities of plasmid chromatin containing HIV sequences. A comparison of these results to the density of A-tracts in the HIV genome indicates that a large fraction of the nucleosomes that make up HIV chromatin should be preferred in vitro targets for the MGBDs. These results show that the MGBDs preferentially disrupt HIV-1 chromatin in vitro and in vivo and raise the possibility that non-toxic derivatives of certain MGBDs might serve as a novel class of anti-HIV agents.
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- Clayton K Collings
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
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Arciszewska K, Pućkowska A, Wróbel A, Drozdowska D. Carbocyclic Analogues of Distamycin and Netropsin. Mini Rev Med Chem 2019; 19:98-113. [PMID: 30626311 DOI: 10.2174/1389557518666181009143203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The DNA as the depository of genetic information is a natural target for chemotherapy. A lot of anticancer and antimicrobial agents derive their biological activity from their selective interaction with DNA in the minor groove and from their ability to interfere with biological processes such as enzyme catalysis, replication and transcription. The discovery of the details of minor groove binding drugs, such as netropsin and distamycin A, oligoamides built of 4-amino-1-methylpyrrole-2-carboxylic acid residues, allowed to develop various DNA sequence-reading molecules, named lexitropsins, capable of interacting with DNA precisely, strongly and with a high specificity, and at the same time exhibiting significant cytotoxic potential. Among such compounds, lexitropsins built of carbocyclic sixmembered aromatic rings occupy a quite prominent place in drug research. This work is an attempt to present current findings in the study of carbocyclic lexitropins, their structures, syntheses and biological investigations such as DNA-binding and antiproliferative activity.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Medical University, Bialystok 15-222, Mickiewicza Street 2c, Poland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Medical University, Bialystok 15-222, Mickiewicza Street 2c, Poland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Medical University, Bialystok 15-222, Mickiewicza Street 2c, Poland
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Koeller KJ, Harris GD, Aston K, He G, Castaneda CH, Thornton MA, Edwards TG, Wang S, Nanjunda R, Wilson WD, Fisher C, Bashkin JK. DNA Binding Polyamides and the Importance of DNA Recognition in their use as Gene-Specific and Antiviral Agents. Med Chem 2014; 4:338-344. [PMID: 24839583 DOI: 10.4172/2161-0444.1000162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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There is a long history for the bioorganic and biomedical use of N-methyl-pyrrole-derived polyamides (PAs) that are higher homologs of natural products such as distamycin A and netropsin. This work has been pursued by many groups, with the Dervan and Sugiyama groups responsible for many breakthroughs. We have studied PAs since about 1999, partly in industry and partly in academia. Early in this program, we reported methods to control cellular uptake of polyamides in cancer cell lines and other cells likely to have multidrug resistance efflux pumps induced. We went on to discover antiviral polyamides active against HPV31, where SAR showed that a minimum binding size of about 10 bp of DNA was necessary for activity. Subsequently we discovered polyamides active against two additional high-risk HPVs, HPV16 and 18, a subset of which showed broad spectrum activity against HPV16, 18 and 31. Aspects of our results presented here are incompatible with reported DNA recognition rules. For example, molecules with the same cognate DNA recognition properties varied from active to inactive against HPVs. We have since pursued the mechanism of action of antiviral polyamides, and polyamides in general, with collaborators at NanoVir, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Georgia State University. We describe dramatic consequences of β-alanine positioning even in relatively small, 8-ring polyamides; these results contrast sharply with prior reports. This paper was originally presented by JKB as a Keynote Lecture in the 2nd International Conference on Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Aided Drug Design Conference in Las Vegas, NV, October 2013.
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- Kevin J Koeller
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, MO 63121, USA ; NanoVir, LLC, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
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Barrett MP, Gemmell CG, Suckling CJ. Minor groove binders as anti-infective agents. Pharmacol Ther 2013; 139:12-23. [PMID: 23507040 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2013] [Accepted: 01/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Minor groove binders are small molecules that form strong complexes with the minor groove of DNA. There are several structural types of which distamycin and netropsin analogues, oligoamides built from heterocyclic and aromatic amino acids, and bis-amidines separated by aromatic and heterocyclic rings are of particular pharmaceutical interest. These molecules have helical topology that approximately matches the curvature of DNA in the minor groove. Depending upon the precise structure of the minor groove binder, selectivity can be obtained with respect to the DNA base sequence to which the compound binds. Minor groove binders have found substantial applications in anti-cancer therapy but their significance in anti-infective therapy has also been significant and is growing. For example, compounds of the bis-amidine class have been notable contributors to antiparasitic therapy for many years with examples such as berenil and pentamidine being well-known. A recent growth area has been inreased sophistication in the oligoamide class. High sequence selectivity is now possible and compounds with distinct antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic activity have all been identified. Importantly, the structures of the most active compounds attacking the various infective organisms differ significantly but not necessarily predictively. This poses interesting questions of mechanism of action with many different targets involved in DNA processing being candidates. Access of compounds to specific cell types also plays a role and in some cases, can be decisive. Prospects for a range of selective therapeutic agents from this class of compounds are higher now than for some considerable time.
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- Michael P Barrett
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Sir Graeme Davies Building University of Glasgow, 120 University Place, Glasgow, G12 8TA, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Lo ATS, Salam NK, Hibbs DE, Rutledge PJ, Todd MH. Polyamide-scorpion cyclam lexitropsins selectively bind AT-rich DNA independently of the nature of the coordinated metal. PLoS One 2011; 6:e17446. [PMID: 21573061 PMCID: PMC3090394 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2010] [Accepted: 02/03/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Cyclam was attached to 1-, 2- and 3-pyrrole lexitropsins for the first time through a synthetically facile copper-catalyzed "click" reaction. The corresponding copper and zinc complexes were synthesized and characterized. The ligand and its complexes bound AT-rich DNA selectively over GC-rich DNA, and the thermodynamic profile of the binding was evaluated by isothermal titration calorimetry. The metal, encapsulated in a scorpion azamacrocyclic complex, did not affect the binding, which was dominated by the organic tail.
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- Anthony T. S. Lo
- School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia
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- Schrödinger, Inc., New York, New York, United States of
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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Żołek T, Maciejewska D. Theoretical models of pentamidine analogs activity based on their DNA minor groove complexes. Eur J Med Chem 2010; 45:1991-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2010.01.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2009] [Revised: 01/07/2010] [Accepted: 01/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In search of second-generation HIV integrase inhibitors: targeting integration beyond strand transfer. Future Med Chem 2009; 1:1259-74. [DOI: 10.4155/fmc.09.86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy combines antiviral drugs targeting different steps in the HIV replication cycle in order to reduce viral loads in patients to undetectable levels. Since HIV readily develops resistance and can therefore escape the action of existing drugs, novel drugs with novel mechanisms of action must be developed. The integration of the viral genome into the human genome is an essential and critical replication step that is catalyzed by the viral integrase with the help of cellular cofactors. Although HIV-1 integrase has been studied for more than two decades, the first integrase inhibitor, raltegravir, was only recently approved for clinical use. A second compound, elvitegravir, is currently in advanced clinical trials. Both drugs interfere with the strand-transfer reaction of integrase. Due to the complexity and multistep nature of the integration reaction, several other functions of integrase can be exploited for drug discovery. In this review, we will describe these alternative strategies to inhibit integration. They have recently attracted considerable interest for the development of second-generation integrase inhibitors.
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Structural analysis of bis-amidines and bis-nitriles in solid-state by combining NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. J Mol Struct 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2009.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Andronova VL, Grokhovsky SL, Surovaya AN, Arkhipova VS, Gursky GV, Galegov GA. Antiviral and cytotoxic activity of netropsin derivatives in vero cells infected with vaccinia virus and herpes simplex virus type I. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2008; 422:296-301. [PMID: 19024561 DOI: 10.1134/s1607672908050116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- V L Andronova
- Ivanovsky Research Institute of Virology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, ul. Gamalei 16, Moscow, 123098 Russia
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Zakharova O, Baranova S, Parissi V, Ryabinin V, Sinyakov A, Litvak S, Litvak L, Nevinsky G. HIV-1 integrase inhibition by pyrrole/imidazole-containing polyamides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2006.00343.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Recognition of the unique structure of DNA:RNA hybrids. Biochimie 2008; 90:1026-39. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2008.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2008] [Accepted: 04/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Eckdahl TT, Brown AD, Hart SN, Malloy KJ, Shott M, Yiu G, Hoopes LLM, Heyer LJ. Microarray analysis of the in vivo sequence preferences of a minor groove binding drug. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:32. [PMID: 18215295 PMCID: PMC2254601 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2007] [Accepted: 01/23/2008] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Background Minor groove binding drugs (MGBDs) interact with DNA in a sequence-specific manner and can cause changes in gene expression at the level of transcription. They serve as valuable models for protein interactions with DNA and form an important class of antitumor, antiviral, antitrypanosomal and antibacterial drugs. There is a need to extend knowledge of the sequence requirements for MGBDs from in vitro DNA binding studies to living cells. Results Here we describe the use of microarray analysis to discover yeast genes that are affected by treatment with the MGBD berenil, thereby allowing the investigation of its sequence requirements for binding in vivo. A novel approach to sequence analysis allowed us to address hypotheses about genes that were directly or indirectly affected by drug binding. The results show that the sequence features of A/T richness and heteropolymeric character discovered by in vitro berenil binding studies are found upstream of genes hypothesized to be directly affected by berenil but not upstream of those hypothesized to be indirectly affected or those shown to be unaffected. Conclusion The data support the conclusion that effects of berenil on gene expression in yeast cells can be explained by sequence patterns discovered by in vitro binding experiments. The results shed light on the sequence and structural rules by which berenil binds to DNA and affects the transcriptional regulation of genes and contribute generally to the development of MGBDs as tools for basic and applied research.
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- Todd T Eckdahl
- Biology Department, Missouri Western State University, Saint Joseph, MO, 64507, USA.
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Fu L, Gribble GW. Reductive acylation of 2- and 3-nitropyrroles—efficient syntheses of pyrrolylamides and pyrrolylimides. Tetrahedron Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.10.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Li HY, Zawahir Z, Song LD, Long YQ, Neamati N. Sequence-based design and discovery of peptide inhibitors of HIV-1 integrase: insight into the binding mode of the enzyme. J Med Chem 2006; 49:4477-86. [PMID: 16854053 DOI: 10.1021/jm060307u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Integration of viral DNA into the host chromosome is an essential step in the HIV life cycle. This process is mediated by integrase (IN), a 32 kDa viral enzyme that has no mammalian counterpart, rendering it an attractive target for antiviral drug design. Herein, we present a novel approach toward elucidating "hot spots" of protein-protein or protein-nucleic acid interactions of IN through the design of peptides that encompass conserved amino acids and residues known to be important for enzymatic activity. We designed small peptides (7-17 residues) containing at least one amino acid residue that is important for IN catalytic activities (3'-processing and strand transfer) or viral replication. All these peptides were synthesized on solid phase by fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc) chemistry and evaluated for their inhibition of IN catalytic activities. Such specific sites of interest (i.e., protein-DNA or protein-drug interactions) could potentially be used as drug targets. This novel "sequence walk" strategy across the entire 288 residues of IN has allowed the identification of two peptides NL-6 and NL-9 with 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of 2.7 and 56 microM for strand transfer activity, respectively. Amino acid substitution analysis on these peptides revealed essential residues for activity, and the rational truncation of NL-6 produced a novel hexapeptide (peptide NL6-5) with inhibitory potency equal to that of the parent dodecapeptide (peptide NL-6). More significantly, the retroinverso analogue of NL-6 (peptide RDNL-6) in which the direction of the sequence is reversed and the chirality of each amino acid residue is inverted displayed improved inhibitory potency against 3'-processing of HIV-1 IN by 6-fold relative to the parent NL-6, serving as a metabolically stable derivative for further in vitro and in vivo analyses.
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- Hui-Yuan Li
- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China
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Pentamidine Analogs: Syntheses, Structures in Solid State by 13C CP/MAS NMR Spectroscopy, and X-Ray Crystallography and their Preliminary Biological Screening Against Human Cancer. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-006-0515-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Marchand C, Johnson AA, Semenova E, Pommier Y. Mechanisms and inhibition of HIV integration. DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY. DISEASE MECHANISMS 2006; 3:253-260. [PMID: 20431697 PMCID: PMC2860614 DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmec.2006.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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HIV integrase is required for viral replication and a rationale target for antiretroviral therapies. Integrase inhibitors are potentially complementary to current treatments. This review focuses on the mechanisms of HIV integration. The roles of viral and cellular co-factors during pre-integration complex (PIC) formation and integration are reviewed. The biochemical mechanisms of integration, integrase structures and approaches to inhibit integration are described.
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- Christophe Marchand
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Bldg. 37, Rm. 5068, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Bldg. 37, Rm. 5068, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Bldg. 37, Rm. 5068, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Bldg. 37, Rm. 5068, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255
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Andronova VL, Grokhovsky SL, Surovaya AN, Gursky GV, Galegov GA. The antiviral activity of the combinations of netropsin derivatives with modified nucleosides and phosphonoacetic acid as estimated in the model of herpesvirus type 1 in a vero cell culture. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2005; 400:84-7. [PMID: 15846992 DOI: 10.1007/s10628-005-0039-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- V L Andronova
- Ivanovsky Research Institute of Virology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 123098 Russia
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HIV integrase is a rational target for treating HIV infection and preventing AIDS. It took approximately 12 years to develop clinically usable inhibitors of integrase, and Phase I clinical trials of integrase inhibitors have just begun. This review focuses on the molecular basis and rationale for developing integrase inhibitors. The main classes of lead compounds are also described, as well as the concept of interfacial inhibitors of protein-nucleic-acid interactions that might apply to the clinically used strand-transfer inhibitors.
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- Yves Pommier
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Baraldi PG, Spalluto G, Cacciari B, Romagnoli R. DNA minor groove alkylating agents structurally related to distamycin A. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2005. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.10.6.891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Andronova VL, Grokhovskii SL, Surovaya AN, Gurskii GV, Galegov GA. DNA-binding and antiviral activity of bis-netropsins containing clusters of lysine residues in the N-terminal region. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2005; 399:386-91. [PMID: 15714954 DOI: 10.1007/s10628-005-0016-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- V L Andronova
- Ivanovskii Institute of Virology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, ul. Gamalei, Moscow, Russia
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Mustata GI, Brigo A, Briggs JM. HIV-1 integrase pharmacophore model derived from diverse classes of inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2004; 14:1447-54. [PMID: 15006380 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2003] [Revised: 01/09/2004] [Accepted: 01/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A three-dimensional pharmacophore model has been generated for HIV-1 integrase (HIV-1 IN) from known inhibitors. A dataset consisting of 26 inhibitors was selected on the basis of the information content of the structures and activity data as required by the catalyst/HypoGen program. Our model was able to predict the activity of other known HIV-1 IN inhibitors not included in the model generation, and can be further used to identify structurally diverse compounds with desired biological activity by virtual screening.
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- Gabriela Iurcu Mustata
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5001, USA
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Johnson AA, Sayer JM, Yagi H, Kalena GP, Amin R, Jerina DM, Pommier Y. Position-specific suppression and enhancement of HIV-1 integrase reactions by minor groove benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide deoxyguanine adducts: implications for molecular interactions between integrase and substrates. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:7947-55. [PMID: 14627697 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311263200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The viral protein HIV-1 integrase is required for insertion of the viral genome into human chromosomes and for viral replication. Integration proceeds in two consecutive integrase-mediated reactions: 3'-processing and strand transfer. To investigate the DNA minor groove interactions of integrase relative to known sites of integrase action, we synthesized oligodeoxynucleotides containing single covalent adducts of known absolute configuration derived from trans-opening of benzo-[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide by the exocyclic 2-amino group of deoxyguanosine at specific positions in a duplex sequence corresponding to the terminus of the viral U5 DNA. Because the orientations of the hydrocarbon in the minor groove are known from NMR solution structures of duplex oligonucleotides containing these deoxyguanosine adducts, a detailed analysis of the relationship between the position of minor groove ligands and integrase interactions is possible. Adducts placed in the DNA minor groove two or three nucleotides from the 3'-processing site inhibited both 3'-processing and strand transfer. Inosine substitution showed that the guanine 2-amino group is required for efficient 3'-processing at one of these positions and for efficient strand transfer at the other. Mapping of the integration sites on both strands of the DNA substrates indicated that the adducts both inhibit strand transfer specifically at the minor groove bound sites and enhance integration at sites up to six nucleotides away from the adducts. These experiments demonstrate the importance of position-specific minor groove contacts for both the integrase-mediated 3'-processing and strand transfer reactions.
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MESH Headings
- 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/analogs & derivatives
- 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/chemistry
- 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/pharmacology
- Binding Sites
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA, Viral/chemistry
- Deoxyguanosine/analogs & derivatives
- Deoxyguanosine/chemistry
- Deoxyguanosine/pharmacology
- HIV Integrase/metabolism
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Recombinant Proteins
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- Allison A Johnson
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, and Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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King PJ, Lee DJ, Reinke RA, Victoria JG, Beale K, Robinson WE. Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 integrase containing a glycine to serine mutation at position 140 is attenuated for catalysis and resistant to integrase inhibitors. Virology 2003; 306:147-61. [PMID: 12620807 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(02)00042-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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L-chicoric acid (L-CA) is a potent inhibitor of HIV integrase (IN) in vitro. In this report, the effects of a glycine to serine mutation at position 140 (G140S) on HIV IN and its effects on IN inhibitor resistance are described. HIV containing the G140S mutation showed a delay in replication. Using real-time polymerase chain reaction, the delay was secondary to a failure in integration. The mutant protein (IN(G140S)) was attenuated approximately four-fold for catalysis under equilibrium conditions compared to wild-type IN (IN(WT)) and attenuated five-fold in steady-state kinetic analysis of disintegration. Fifty percent inhibitory concentration assays were performed with IN inhibitors against both IN proteins in disintegration and strand transfer reactions. IN(G140S) was resistant to both L-CA and L-731,988, a diketoacid. HIV containing the mutation was resistant to both inhibitors as well. The G140S mutation attenuates IN activity and confers resistance to IN inhibitors, suggesting that diketoacids and L-CA interact with a similar binding site on HIV IN.
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- Peter J King
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Virtually all the compounds that are currently used or are subject of advanced clinical trials for the treatment of HIV infections, belong to one of the following classes: (i) nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs): i.e., zidovudine, didanosine, zalcitabine, stavudine, lamivudine, abacavir, emtricitabine and nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NtRTIs) (i.e., tenofovir disoproxil fumarate); (ii) non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs): i.e., nevirapine, delavirdine, efavirenz, emivirine; and (iii) protease inhibitors (PIs): i.e., saquinavir, ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, amprenavir, and lopinavir. In addition to the reverse transcriptase and protease reaction, various other events in the HIV replicative cycle can be considered as potential targets for chemotherapeutic intervention: (i) viral adsorption, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120 (polysulfates, polysulfonates, polycarboxylates, polyoxometalates, polynucleotides, and negatively charged albumins); (ii) viral entry, through blockade of the viral coreceptors CXCR4 (i.e., bicyclam (AMD3100) derivatives) and CCR5 (i.e., TAK-779 derivatives); (iii) virus-cell fusion, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp41 (T-20, T-1249); (iv) viral assembly and disassembly, through NCp7 zinc finger-targeted agents [2,2'-dithiobisbenzamides (DIBAs), azadicarbonamide (ADA)]; (v) proviral DNA integration, through integrase inhibitors such as 4-aryl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acid derivatives; (vi) viral mRNA transcription, through inhibitors of the transcription (transactivation) process (flavopiridol, fluoroquinolones). Also, various new NRTIs, NNRTIs, and PIs have been developed that possess, respectively: (i) improved metabolic characteristics (i.e., phosphoramidate and cyclosaligenyl pronucleotides by-passing the first phosphorylation step of the NRTIs), (ii) increased activity ["second" or "third" generation NNRTIs ( i.e., TMC-125, DPC-083)] against those HIV strains that are resistant to the "first" generation NNRTIs, or (iii), as in the case of PIs, a different, modified peptidic (i.e., azapeptidic (atazanavir)) or non-peptidic scaffold (i.e., cyclic urea (mozenavir), 4-hydroxy-2-pyrone (tipranavir)). Non-peptidic PIs may be expected to inhibit HIV mutant strains that have become resistant to peptidomimetic PIs.
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- Erik De Clercq
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Sharma SK, Billaud JN, Tandon M, Billet O, Choi S, Kopka ML, Phillips TR, Lown JW. Inhibition of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) replication by DNA binding polyamides. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2002; 12:2007-10. [PMID: 12113829 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(02)00307-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Two DNA minor-groove binding polyamides 1 and 2 were designed and synthesized and evaluated for inhibition of FIV-34TF10 replication. Both 1 and 2 decreased the replication of FIV-34TF10 by 75% by acting at the level of the virus but outside of the LTR or env region.
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- Sanjay K Sharma
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G2
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Andréola ML, De Soultrait VR, Fournier M, Parissi V, Desjobert C, Litvak S. HIV-1 integrase and RNase H activities as therapeutic targets. Expert Opin Ther Targets 2002; 6:433-46. [PMID: 12223059 DOI: 10.1517/14728222.6.4.433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The retroviruses are a large, diverse family of enveloped RNA viruses defined by their structure, composition and replicative properties. The hallmark of the family is its replicative strategy, essential steps of which include reverse transcription of the viral RNA and the subsequent integration of this DNA into the genome of the cell. These steps are performed by two viral-encoded enzymes, reverse transcriptase (RT), which possesses DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities, and integrase (IN). These enzymes are excellent targets for retroviral therapy since they are essential for viral replication. Numerous substances capable of inhibiting the DNA polymerase activity of HIV-1 RT are available, while few specific inhibitors of RNase H activity have been described. IN is absolutely necessary for stable and productive infection of cells. Some IN inhibitors have been recently reported and are available demonstrating the potential of IN as an antiviral target. This paper is an overview of the inhibitors of RNase H and IN and describes the most promising inhibitors.
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- M L Andréola
- Laboratory of Replication and Expression of Eukaryotic and Retroviral Genomes, UMR 5097, CNRS-Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France.
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Pannecouque C, Pluymers W, Van Maele B, Tetz V, Cherepanov P, De Clercq E, Witvrouw M, Debyser Z. New class of HIV integrase inhibitors that block viral replication in cell culture. Curr Biol 2002; 12:1169-77. [PMID: 12176326 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00952-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND To improve the existing combination therapies of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to cope with virus strains that are resistant to multiple drugs, we initiated a search for effective inhibitors of HIV integrase, the enzyme responsible for inserting the viral cDNA into the host cell chromosome. RESULTS We have now identified a series of 5H-pyrano[2,3-d:-6,5-d']dipyrimidines that block the replication of various strains of HIV-1 and HIV-2. The most potent congener, 5-(4-nitrophenyl)-2,8-dithiol-4,6-dihydroxy-5H-pyrano[2,3-d:-6,5-d']dipyrimidine (V-165), inhibited the replication of HIV-1(III(B)) in MT-4 cells at a 50% effective concentration (EC(50)) of 8.9 microM, which is 14-fold below its cytotoxic concentration. V-165 was equally active against virus strains that were resistant toward inhibitors of viral entry or reverse transcriptase. In combination regimens in cell culture, V-165 acted subsynergistically with zidovudine or nelfinavir and synergistically with nevirapine. V-165 inhibited both reverse transcriptase and integrase activities in enzymatic assays at micromolar concentrations, but only a close correlation was found between the anti-HIV activity observed in cell culture and the inhibitory activity in the integrase strand transfer assays. Time-of-addition experiments indicated that V-165 interfered with the viral replication cycle at a time point coinciding with integration. Quantitative Alu-PCR corroborated that the anti-HIV activity of V-165 is based upon the inhibition of proviral DNA integration. CONCLUSIONS Based on their mode of action, which is different from that of clinically approved anti-HIV drugs, PDPs are good candidates for further development into new drugs and to be included in future combination regimens.
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Virtually all the compounds that are currently used, or are subject of advanced clinical trials, for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, belong to one of the following classes: (i) nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs): i.e. zidovudine (AZT), didanosine (ddI), zalcitabine (ddC), stavudine (d4T), lamivudine (3TC), abacavir (ABC), emtricitabine [(-)FTC], tenofovir disoproxil fumarate; (ii) non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs): i.e. nevirapine, delavirdine, efavirenz, emivirine; and (iii) protease inhibitors (PIs): i.e. saquinavir, ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, amprenavir and lopinavir. In addition to the reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease reaction, various other events in the HIV replicative cycle can be considered as potential targets for chemotherapeutic intervention: (i) viral adsorption, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120 (polysulfates, polysulfonates, polycarboxylates, polyoxometalates, polynucleotides, and negatively charged albumins); (ii) viral entry, through blockade of the viral coreceptors CXCR4 [bicyclam (AMD3100) derivatives] and CCR5 (TAK-779 derivatives); (iii) virus-cell fusion, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp41 (T-20, T-1249); (iv) viral assembly and disassembly, through NCp7 zinc finger-targeted agents [2,2'-dithiobisbenzamides (DIBAs), azadicarbonamide (ADA)]; (v) proviral DNA integration, through integrase inhibitors such as 4-aryl-2,4-dioxobutanoic acid derivatives; (vi) viral mRNA transcription, through inhibitors of the transcription (transactivation) process (flavopiridol, fluoroquinolones). Also, various new NRTIs, NNRTIs and PIs have been developed that possess, respectively: (i) improved metabolic characteristics (i.e. phosphoramidate and cyclosaligenyl pronucleotides by-passing the first phosphorylation step of the NRTIs), (ii) increased activity ["second" or "third" generation NNRTIs (i.e. TMC-125, DPC-083)] against those HIV strains that are resistant to the "first" generation NNRTIs, or (iii) as in the case of PIs, a different, nonpeptidic scaffold [i.e. cyclic urea (mozenavir), 4-hydroxy-2-pyrone (tipranavir)]. Nonpeptidic PIs may be expected to inhibit HIV mutant strains that have become resistant to peptidomimetic PIs. Given the multitude of molecular targets with which anti-HIV agents can interact, one should be cautious in extrapolating the mode of action of these agents from cell-free enzymatic assays to intact cells. Two examples in point are L-chicoric acid and the nonapeptoid CGP64222, which were initially described as an integrase inhibitor or Tat antagonist, respectively, but later shown to primarily act as virus adsorption/entry inhibitors, the latter through blockade of CXCR4.
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- Erik De Clercq
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 10, Leuven, Belgium.
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Sukhanova A, Grokhovsky S, Ermishov M, Mochalov K, Zhuze A, Oleinikov V, Nabiev I. DNA structural alterations induced by bis-netropsins modulate human DNA topoisomerase I cleavage activity and poisoning by camptothecin. Biochem Pharmacol 2002; 64:79-90. [PMID: 12106608 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(02)01057-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bis-netropsins (bis-Nts) are efficient catalytic inhibitors of human DNA topoisomerase I (top I). These DNA minor groove binders are considered to serve as suppressors of top I-linked DNA breaks, which is generally believed to be related to their affinity to DNA. In this study, it was found that bis-Nts exhibit sequence-specificity of suppression of the strong top I-specific DNA cleavage sites and that this sequence-specificity is determined by differential ligand-induced structural alterations of DNA. Raman scattering analysis of bis-Nts interactions with double-stranded oligonucleotides, each containing the site of specific affinity to one of bis-Nts and a distinctly located top I degenerate consensus, demonstrated that bis-Nts induce not only structural changes in duplex DNA at their loading position, but also conformational changes in a distant top I-specific DNA cleavage site. The ability to alter the DNA structure correlates with the anti-top I inhibitory activities of the ligands. In addition, DNA structural alterations induced by bis-Nts were shown to be responsible for modulation of the camptothecin (CPT)-mediated DNA cleavage by top I. This effect is expressed in the bis-Nts-induced enhancement of some of the CPT-dependent DNA cleavage sites as well as in the CPT-induced enhancement of some of the top I-specific DNA cleavage sites suppressed by bis-Nts in the absence of CPT.
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- Alyona Sukhanova
- EA3306, Institut Fédératif de Recherche no. 53 Biomolécules, UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
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Dyatkina NB, Roberts CD, Keicher JD, Dai Y, Nadherny JP, Zhang W, Schmitz U, Kongpachith A, Fung K, Novikov AA, Lou L, Velligan M, Khorlin AA, Chen MS. Minor groove DNA binders as antimicrobial agents. 1. Pyrrole tetraamides are potent antibacterials against vancomycin resistant Enterococci [corrected] and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Med Chem 2002; 45:805-17. [PMID: 11831893 DOI: 10.1021/jm010375a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A new series of short pyrrole tetraamides are described whose submicromolar DNA binding affinity is an essential component for their strong antibacterial activity. This class of compounds is related to the linked bis-netropsins and bis-distamycins, but here, only one amino-pyrrole-carboxamide unit and an amidine tail is connected to either side of a central dicarboxylic acid linker. The highest degree of DNA binding, measured by compound-induced changes in UV melting temperatures of an AT-rich DNA oligomer, was observed for flat, aromatic linkers with no inherent bent, i.e., terephthalic acid or 1,4-pyridine-dicarboxylic acid. However, the antibacterial activity is critically linked to the size of the N-alkyl substiutent of the pyrrole unit. None of the tetraamides with the commonly used methyl-pyrrole showed antibacterial activity. Isoamyl- or cyclopropylmethylene-substituted dipyrrole derivatives have the minimum inhibitory concentrations in the submicromolar range. In vitro toxicity against human T-cells was studied for all compounds. The degree to which compounds inhibited cell growth was neither directly correlated to DNA binding affinity nor directly correlated to antibacterial activity but seemed to depend strongly on the nature of the N-alkyl pyrrole substituents.
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- Natalia B Dyatkina
- Genelabs Technologies, 505 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City, California 94063, USA.
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Debyser Z, Cherepanov P, Van Maele B, De Clercq E, Witvrouw M. In search of authentic inhibitors of HIV-1 integration. Antivir Chem Chemother 2002; 13:1-15. [PMID: 12180645 DOI: 10.1177/095632020201300101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Current strategies for the treatment of HIV infection are based on cocktails of drugs that target the viral reverse transcriptase or protease enzymes. At present, the clinical benefit of this combination therapy for HIV-infected patients is considerable, although it is not clear how long this effect will last taking into account the emergence of multiple drug-resistant viral strains. Addition of new anti-HIV drugs targeting additional steps of the viral replication cycle may increase the potency of inhibition and prevent resistance development. During HIV replication, integration of the viral genome into the cellular chromosome is an essential step catalysed by the viral integrase. Although HIV integrase is an attractive target for antiviral therapy, so far all research efforts have led to the identification of only one series of compounds that selectively inhibit the integration step during HIV replication, namely the diketo acids. In this review we try to address the question why it has proven so difficult to find potent and selective integrase inhibitors. We point to potential pitfalls in defining an inhibitor as an authentic integrase inhibitor, and propose new strategies and technologies for the discovery of authentic HIV integration inhibitors.
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- Zeger Debyser
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
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Virtually all the compounds that are currently used, or under advanced clinical trial, for the treatment of HIV infections, belong to one of the following classes: (i) nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs): i.e. zidovudine, didanosine, zalcitabine, stavudine, lamivudine, abacavir, emtricitabine, tenofovir (PMPA) disoproxil fumarate; (ii) non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs): i.e. nevirapine, delavirdine, efavirenz, emivirine; and (iii) protease inhibitors (PIs): i.e. saquinavir, ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir and amprenavir. In addition, various other events in the HIV replicative cycle are potential targets for chemotherapeutic intervention: (i) viral adsorption, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120; (ii) viral entry, through blockade of the viral coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5; (iii) virus-cell fusion; (iv) viral assembly and disassembly; (v) proviral DNA integration; (vi) viral mRNA transcription. Also, new NRTIs, NNRTIs and PIs have been developed that possess respectively improved metabolic characteristics, or increased activity against NNRTI-resistant HIV strains or, as in the case of PIs, a different, non-peptidic scaffold. Given the multitude of molecular targets with which anti-HIV agents can interact, one should be cautious in extrapolating from cell-free enzymatic assays to the mode of action of these agents in intact cells.
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- E De Clercq
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
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Andronova VL, Grokhovskii SL, Surovaya AN, Gurskii GV, Galegov GA. Antiherpetic activity of dimeric derivatives of netropsin. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2001; 380:345-8. [PMID: 11727562 DOI: 10.1023/a:1012300527936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- V L Andronova
- Ivanovskii Institute of Virology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 32, Moscow, Russia
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Human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1) integrase is an essential enzyme for the obligatory integration of the viral DNA into the infected cell chromosome. As no cellular homologue of HIV integrase has been identified, this unique HIV-1 enzyme is an attractive target for the development of new therapeutics. Treatment of HIV-1 infection and AIDS currently consists of the use of combinations of HIV-1 inhibitors directed against reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease. However, their numerous side effects and the rapid emergence of drug-resistant variants limit greatly their use in many AIDS patients. In principle, inhibitors of the HIV-1 integrase should be relatively non-toxic and provide additional benefits for AIDS chemotherapy. There have been many major advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanism of the integration reaction, although some critical aspects remain obscure. Several classes of compounds have been screened and further scrutinised for their inhibitory properties against the HIV integrase; however, there are currently no useful inhibitors available clinically for the treatment of AIDS patients. This review describes the current knowledge of the biological functions of the HIV-1 integrase and reports the major classes of integrase inhibitors identified to date.
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- Khampoune Sayasith
- CRRA, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, PO Box 5000, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada J2S 7C6.
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Surovaya AN, Burckhardt G, Grokhovsky SL, Birch-Hirschfeld E, Nikitin AM, Fritzsche H, Zimmer C, Gursky GV. Binding of bis-linked netropsin derivatives in the parallel-stranded hairpin form to DNA. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2001; 18:689-701. [PMID: 11334106 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2001.10506699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cis-diammine Pt(II)- bridged bis-netropsin and oligomethylene-bridged bis-netropsin in which two monomers are linked in a tail-to-tail manner bind to the DNA oligomer with the sequence 5'-CCTATATCC-3' in a parallel-stranded hairpin form with a stoichiometry 1:1. The difference circular dichroism (CD) spectra characteristic of binding of these ligands in the hairpin form are similar. They differ from CD patterns obtained for binding to the same duplex of another bis-netropsin in which two netropsin moieties were linked in a head-to-tail manner. This reflects the fact that tail-to-tail and head-to-tail bis-netropsins use parallel and antiparallel side-by-side motifs, respectively, for binding to DNA in the hairpin forms. The binding affinity of cis-diammine Pt(II)-bridged bis-netropsin in the hairpin form to DNA oligomers with nucleotide sequences 5'-CCTATATCC-3' (I), 5'-CCTTAATCC-3' (II), 5'-CCTTATTCC-3' (III), 5'-CCTTTTTCC-3' (IV) and 5'-CCAATTTCC-3' (V) decreases in the order I = II > III > IV > V . The binding of oligomethylene-bridged bis-netropsin in the hairpin form follows a similar hierarchy. An opposite order of sequence preferences is observed for partially bonded monodentate binding mode of the synthetic ligand.
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- A N Surovaya
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Sharma SK, Morrissey AT, Miller GG, Gmeiner WH, Lown JW. Design, synthesis, and intracellular localization of a fluorescently labeled DNA binding polyamide related to the antibiotic distamycin. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2001; 11:769-72. [PMID: 11277516 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00064-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The design and synthesis of the lipophilic (9) and fluorescent (10) conjugates of a structural analogue of distamycin and their in vitro cellular localization studies are reported. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) indicates that 10 rapidly enters human ovarian adenocarcinoma (SKOV-3) cells with principal uptake in mitochondria and uniform cytoplasmic distribution.
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- S K Sharma
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Neamati N, Marchand C, Pommier Y. HIV-1 integrase inhibitors: past, present, and future. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 2001; 49:147-65. [PMID: 11013763 DOI: 10.1016/s1054-3589(00)49026-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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- N Neamati
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Hawkins CA, Watson C, Yan Y, Gong B, Wemmer DE. Structural analysis of the binding modes of minor groove ligands comprised of disubstituted benzenes. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:936-42. [PMID: 11160926 PMCID: PMC29609 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.4.936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional homonuclear NMR was used to characterize synthetic DNA minor groove-binding ligands in complexes with oligonucleotides containing three different A-T binding sites. The three ligands studied have a C(2) axis of symmetry and have the same general structural motif of a central para-substituted benzene ring flanked by two meta-substituted rings, giving the molecules a crescent shape. As with other ligands of this shape, specificity seems to arise from a tight fit in the narrow minor groove of the preferred A-T-rich sequences. We found that these ligands slide between binding subsites, behavior attributed to the fact that all of the amide protons in the ligand backbone cannot hydrogen bond to the minor groove simultaneously.
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- C A Hawkins
- Department of Chemistry and Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460, USA
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Janssen S, Durussel T, Laemmli UK. Chromatin opening of DNA satellites by targeted sequence-specific drugs. Mol Cell 2000; 6:999-1011. [PMID: 11106740 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)00099-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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There are few tools available for dissecting and elucidating the functions of DNA satellites and other nongenic DNA. To address this, we have explored the experimental potential of DNA sequence-specific drugs containing pyrrole and imidazole amino acids (polyamides). Compounds were synthesized that target different Drosophila melanogaster satellites. Dimeric oligopyrroles were shown to target the AT-rich satellites I, III, and SARs (scaffold associated regions). One polyamide (P31) specifically binds the GAGAA satellite V. Specificity of targeting was established by footprinting, epifluorescence of nuclei, and polytene chromosomes stained with fluorescent derivatives. These polyamides were shown to mediate satellite-specific chromatin opening of the chromatin fiber. Remarkably, certain polyamides induced defined gain or loss-of-function phenotypes when fed to Drosophila melanogaster.
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- S Janssen
- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Geneva 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 4, Geneva, Switzerland
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Ermishov M, Sukhanova A, Kryukov E, Grokhovsky S, Zhuze A, Oleinikov V, Jardillier JC, Nabiev I. Raman and surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy of bis-netropsins and their DNA complexes. Biopolymers 2000; 57:272-81. [PMID: 10958319 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0282(2000)57:5<272::aid-bip40>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The interactions of three bis-netropsins (bis-Nts), which are potent catalytic inhibitors of DNA-binding enzymes, with three double-stranded oligonucleotides (OLIGs), which contain sites of different specific affinities for each bis-Nt, were analyzed. Raman spectroscopy was performed for selective monitoring of modifications of the bis-Nt or the OLIG structure upon bis-Nt-DNA binding, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy (SERS) was an additional tool for topology studies of ligand-DNA complexes. The spectral data showed conformational changes of both partners (bis-Nt and OLIG) upon complexation. Structural variations of bis-Nts appeared to be dependent on a bis-Nt-OLIG binding constant and were found to be small in the specific DNA binding and highest for nonspecific binding of bis-Nt with the corresponding OLIG. The conformational changes of the OLIGs were varied with a bis-Nt-OLIG binding constant in the same manner. The bis-Nts seemed to induce a perturbation in the OLIG's structure, as well as in the positions of their direct binding. These DNA structural modification effects may explain the inhibition of DNA-binding enzymes in the variety of very distinct DNA-enzyme binding sites by bis-Nts reported previously.
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- M Ermishov
- Institut Fédératif de Recherche, Biomolécules, UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Pommier Y, Marchand C, Neamati N. Retroviral integrase inhibitors year 2000: update and perspectives. Antiviral Res 2000; 47:139-48. [PMID: 10974366 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3542(00)00112-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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HIV-1 integrase is an essential enzyme for retroviral replication and a rational target for the design of anti-AIDS drugs. A number of inhibitors have been reported in the past 8 years. This review focuses on the recent developments in the past 2 years. There are now several inhibitors with known sites of actions and antiviral activity. The challenge is to convert these leads into drugs that will selectively target integrase in vivo, and can be added to our antiviral armamentarium.
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- Y Pommier
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA.
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Gmeiner WH, Cui W, Sharma S, Soto AM, Marky LA, Lown JW. Shape-selective binding of geometrically-constrained bis-distamycins to a DNA duplex and a model Okazaki fragment of identical sequence. NUCLEOSIDES, NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2000; 19:1365-79. [PMID: 11097065 DOI: 10.1080/15257770008033058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The binding of ligands to nucleic acids is of great interest for the control of gene expression and other nucleic acid mediated processes. We have evaluated the binding of several geometrically-constrained bis-distamycins to a model Okazaki fragment [OKA], or a DNA duplex having identical base sequence [DD], using gel-shift assays, optical spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. In the case of covalent attachment of two distamycins to a central benzene ring, a similar binding profile was observed for [DD] as was observed for [OKA] (para binds [K(app) > 10(6) M(-1)], meta binds only weakly). For a central pyridyl ring, however, clear distinction between the binding to [DD] and binding to [OKA] was observed. While none of the three meta isomers having a central pyridyl ring bound [OKA], two of them (MT-17 and MT-12) bound [DD] [K(app) > 10(6) M(-1)]. These results demonstrate subtle differences in lexitropsin shape and placement of electronegative atoms may result in selective binding to a nucleic acid duplex based both on base sequence and chemical composition. Selective binding to DNA duplexes may be useful for designing ligands that regulate transcription, but do not interfere in other nucleic acid mediated processes.
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- W H Gmeiner
- Biochemistry Department, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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Virtually all the compounds that are currently used, or under advanced clinical trial, for the treatment of HIV infections, belong to one of the following classes: (i) nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), (ii) non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and (iii) protease inhibitors (PIs). In addition to the reverse transcriptase and protease step, various other events in the HIV replicative cycle are potential targets for chemotherapeutic intervention: (i) viral adsorption, through binding to the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120 (polysulphates, polysulphonates, polyoxometalates, zintevir, negatively charged albumins); (ii) viral entry, through blockade of the viral coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 [bicyclams (AMD3100), polyphemusins (T22), TAK-779]; (iii) virus-cell fusion, through binding to the viral glycoprotein gp41 [T-20 (DP-178), siamycins, betulinic acid derivatives]; (iv) viral assembly and disassembly, through NCp7 zinc finger-targeted agents [2,2'-dithiobisbenzamides (DIBAs), azadicarbonamide (ADA)]; (v) proviral DNA integration, through integrase inhibitors such as L-chicoric acid; (vi) viral mRNA transcription, through inhibitors of the transcription (transactivation) process (peptoid CGP64222, fluoroquinolone K-12, Streptomyces product EM2487). Also, in recent years new NRTIs, NNRTIs and PIs have been developed that possess, respectively, improved metabolic characteristics (i.e. phosphoramidate and cyclosaligenyl pronucleotides of d4T), or increased activity against NNRTI-resistant HIV strains, or, in the case of PIs, a different, non-peptidic scaffold. Given the multitude of molecular targets with which anti-HIV agents can interact, one should be cautious in extrapolating from cell-free enzymatic assays to the mode of action of these agents in intact cells. A number of compounds (i.e. zintevir and L-chicoric acid, on the one hand; and CGP64222 on the other hand) have recently been found to interact with virus-cell binding and viral entry in contrast to their proposed modes of action targeted at the integrase and transactivation process, respectively.
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- E De Clercq
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Gmeiner WH, Cui W, Konerding DE, Keifer PA, Sharma SK, Soto AM, Marky LA, Lown JW. Shape-selective recognition of a model Okazaki fragment by geometrically-constrained bis-distamycins. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1999; 17:507-18. [PMID: 10636085 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1999.10508381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Okazaki fragments represent interesting targets for the design of anticancer drugs because of their selective occurrence during DNA replication, a process often elevated in aggressive malignancies. Structural studies have indicated a bend occurs in the helical axis at the junction region (JR) that joins the DNA duplex region (DDR) and the RNA-DNA hybrid duplex region (HDR) of model Okazaki fragments. To identify a structural motif that provides a shape complementary to the Okazaki fragment minor groove, we have investigated the binding of geometrically-constrained bis-distamycins to a model Okazaki fragment, [OKA], with a sequence derived from the genome of simian virus 40 (SV40). Both the JR and the DDR of [OKA] contain consecutive A/T base pairs that could accommodate distamycin binding. Of the six bis-distamycins selected for analysis, the two with a para configuration of the distamycins on the benzene or pyridine scaffold bound [OKA] tightly (Kd approximately 10(-6) M from gel-shift assays; Kd approximately 10(-8) M from deltaT(M)) while the four with a meta orientation did not bind. The two mono-distamycins studied also did not bind [OKA]. Molecular modeling of the complex between the para bis-distamycin MT-9 and [OKA] revealed MT-9 adopted an S- shape complementary to the minor groove of the model Okazaki fragment.
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- W H Gmeiner
- Eppley Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-6805, USA.
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In this review, both cationic and neutral synthetic ligands that bind in the minor groove of DNA are discussed. Certain bis-distamycins and related lexitropsins show activities against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and HIV-2 at low nanomolar concentrations. DAPI binds strongly to AT-containing polymers and is located in the minor groove of DNA. DAPI intercalates in DNA sequences that do not contain at least three consecutive AT bp. Berenil can also exhibit intercalative, as well as minor groove binding, properties depending on sequence. Furan-containing analogues of berenil play an important role in their activities against Pneumocystis carinii and Cryptosporidium parvuam infections in vivo. Pt(II)-berenil conjugates show a good activity profile against HL60 and U-937 human leukemic cells. Pt-pentamidine shows higher antiproliferative activity against small cell lung, non-small cell lung, and melanoma cancer cell lines compared with many other tumor cell lines. trans-Butenamidine shows good anti-P. carinii activity in rats. Pentamidine is used against P. carinii pneumonia in individuals infected with HIV who are at high risk from this infection. A comparison of the cytotoxic potencies of adozelesin, bizelesin, carzelesin, cisplatin, and doxorubicin indicates that adozelesin is a potent analog of CC-1065. Naturally occurring pyrrolo[2,1-c][l,4]benzodiazepines such as anthramycin have a 2- to 3-bp sequence specificity, but a synthetic PBD dimer spans 6 bp, actively recognizing a central 5'-GATC sequence. The crosslinking efficiency of PBD dimers is much greater than that of other major groove crosslinkers, such as cisplatin, melphalan, etc. Neothramycin is used clinically for the treatment of superficial carcinoma of the bladder.
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- B S Reddy
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Integration of the viral DNA into a host cell chromosome is an essential step for HIV replication and maintenance of persistent infection. Two viral factors are essential for integration: the viral DNA termini (the att sites) and IN. Accruing knowledge of the IN structure, catalytic mechanisms, and interactions with other proteins can be used to design strategies to block integration. A large number of inhibitors have been identified that can be used as leads for the development of potent and selective anti-IN drugs with antiviral activity.
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- Y Pommier
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4255, USA
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