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Introducing metallocene into a triazole peptide conjugate reduces its off-rate and enhances its affinity and antiviral potency for HIV-1 gp120
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Introducing metallocene into a triazole peptide conjugate reduces its off-rate and enhances its affinity and antiviral potency for HIV-1 gp120

Hosahudya Gopi, Simon Cocklin, Vanessa Pirrone, Karyn McFadden, Ferit Tuzer, Isaac Zentner, Sandya Ajith, Sabine Baxter, Navneet Jawanda, Fred C Krebs, …
Journal of molecular recognition, v 22(2)
2009
PMID: 18498083
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https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.892View
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Abstract

entry inhibitors surface plasmon resonance cell infection HIV-1 gp120 peptide triazoles
In this work, we identified a high affinity and potency metallocene-containing triazole peptide conjugate that suppresses the interactions of HIV-1 envelope gp120 at both its CD4 and co-receptor binding sites. The ferrocene-peptide conjugate, HNG-156, was formed by an on-resin copper-catalysed [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction. Surface plasmon resonance interaction analysis revealed that, compared to a previously reported phenyl-containing triazole conjugate HNG-105 (105), peptide 156 had a higher direct binding affinity for several subtypes of HIV-1 gp120 due mainly to the decreased dissociation rate of the conjugate-gp120 complex. The ferrocene triazole conjugate bound to gp120 of both clade A (92UG037-08) and clade B (YU-2 and SF162) virus subtypes with nanomolar K D in direct binding and inhibited the binding of gp120 to soluble CD4 and to antibodies that bind to HIV-1 YU-2 gp120 at both the CD4 binding site and CD4-induced binding sites. HNG-156 showed a close-to nanomolar IC 50 for inhibiting cell infection by HIV-1 BaL whole virus. The dual receptor site antagonist activity and potency of HNG-156 make it a promising viral envelope inhibitor lead for developing anti-HIV-1 treatments.

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