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Macrocyclic Envelope Glycoprotein Antagonists that Irreversibly Inactivate HIV-1 before Host Cell Encounter
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Macrocyclic Envelope Glycoprotein Antagonists that Irreversibly Inactivate HIV-1 before Host Cell Encounter

Adel A Rashad, Ramalingam Venkat Kalyana Sundaram, Rachna Aneja, Caitlin Duffy and Irwin Chaiken
Journal of medicinal chemistry, v 58(18), pp 7603-7608
24 Sep 2015
PMID: 26331669
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4936186View
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Abstract

Anti-HIV Agents - chemical synthesis Anti-HIV Agents - chemistry Anti-HIV Agents - pharmacology Cell Line Chymotrypsin - chemistry HIV Envelope Protein gp120 - antagonists & inhibitors HIV-1 - drug effects HIV-1 - physiology Humans Models, Molecular Oligopeptides - chemical synthesis Oligopeptides - chemistry Oligopeptides - pharmacology Peptides, Cyclic - chemical synthesis Peptides, Cyclic - chemistry Peptides, Cyclic - pharmacology Protein Conformation Triazoles - chemical synthesis Triazoles - chemistry Triazoles - pharmacology Trypsin - chemistry Virion - drug effects Virion - physiology Virus Internalization
We derived macrocyclic HIV-1 antagonists as a new class of peptidomimetic drug leads. Cyclic peptide triazoles (cPTs) retained the gp120 inhibitory and virus-inactivating signature of parent PTs, arguing that cyclization locked an active conformation. The six-residue cPT 9 (AAR029b) exhibited submicromolar antiviral potencies in inhibiting cell infection and triggering gp120 shedding that causes irreversible virion inactivation. Importantly, cPTs were stable to trypsin and chymotrypsin compared to substantial susceptibility of corresponding linear PTs.

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