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Non-Natural Peptide Triazole Antagonists of HIV-1 Envelope gp120
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Non-Natural Peptide Triazole Antagonists of HIV-1 Envelope gp120

Kantharaju Kamanna, Rachna Aneja, Caitlin Duffy, Pamela Kubinski, Diogo Rodrigo Moreira, Lauren D Bailey, Karyn McFadden, Arne Schön, Andrew Holmes, Ferit Tuzer, …
ChemMedChem, v 8(2), pp 322-328
Feb 2013
PMID: 23239505
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https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201200422View
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Abstract

Surface Plasmon Resonance Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Synthetic non-natural peptide triazoles Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus HIV entry Inhibitors
We investigated the derivation of non-natural peptide triazole dual receptor site antagonists of HIV-1 Env gp120 in order to establish a path for developing peptidomimetic antiviral agents. Previously, we found that the peptide triazole HNG-156 (R-I-N-N-I-X-W-S-E-A-M-M-CONH 2 , where X is ferrocenyltriazole-Pro (FtP)) had nanomolar binding affinity to gp120, inhibited gp120 binding to CD4 and the co-receptor surrogate m Ab 17b and had potent antiviral activity in cell infection assays. Further, truncated variants of HNG-156, typified by UM-24 (Cit-N-N-I-X-W-S-CONH 2 ) and containing the critical central stereospecific L X- L W cluster, retained the functional characteristics of the parent peptide triazole. In the current work, we examined the possibility to replace natural with unnatural residue components in UM-24 to the greatest extent possible. The analogue with the critical “hot spot” residue Trp 6 replaced with L -3-Benzothienylalanine (Bta) (KR-41), as well as a completely non-natural analogue containing D -amino acid substitutions outside the central cluster (KR-42, D Cit- D N- D N- D I-X-Bta- D S-CONH 2 ), retained the dual receptor site antagonism / antiviral activity signature. The results define differential functional roles of subdomains within the peptide triazole and provide a structural basis for designing metabolically stable peptidomimetic inhibitors of HIV-1 Env gp120.

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