Design of novel HIV-1 protease inhibitors incorporating isophthalamide-derived P2-P3 ligands: synthesis, biological evaluation and X-ray structural studies of inhibitor-HIV-1 protease complex

Publication date: Available online 9 April 2017
Source:Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
Author(s): Arun K. Ghosh, Margherita Brindisi, Prasanth R. Nyalapatla, Jun Takayama, Jean-Rene Ella-Menye, Sofiya Yashchuk, Johnson Agniswamy, Yuan-Fang Wang, Manabu Aoki, Masayuki Amano, Irene T. Weber, Hiroaki Mitsuya
Based upon molecular insights from the X-ray structures of inhibitor-bound HIV-1 protease complexes, we have designed a series of isophthalamide-derived inhibitors incorporating substituted pyrrolidines, piperidines and thiazolidines as P2-P3 ligands for specific interactions in the S2-S3 extended site. Compound 4b has shown an enzyme Ki of 0.025 nM and antiviral IC50 of 69 nM. An X-ray crystal structure of inhibitor 4b-HIV-1 protease complex was determined at 1.33 Å resolution. We have also determined X-ray structure of 3b-bound HIV-1 protease at 1.27 Å resolution. These structures revealed important molecular insight into the inhibitor–HIV-1 protease interactions in the active site.

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