128018-20-2Relevant articles and documents
An unusual functional group interaction and its potential to reproduce steric and electrostatic features of the transition states of peptidolysis
Gautier, Arnaud,Pitrat, Delphine,Hasserodt, Jens
, p. 3835 - 3847 (2007/10/03)
The donor-acceptor interaction between a tertiary amine and an aldehyde, first observed among a select class of alkaloids, was deliberately established in a peptidomimetic (1a-c) to mimic features of the two principal transition states of peptide hydrolys
Development of a new type of protease inhibitors, efficacious against FIV and HIV variants
Lee, Taekyu,Le, Van-Duc,Lim, Dongyeol,Lin, Ying-Chuan,Morris, Garrett M.,Wong, Andrew L.,Olson, Arthur J.,Elder, John H.,Wong, Chi-Huey
, p. 1145 - 1155 (2007/10/03)
Based on the structural analysis of FIV protease and drug-resistant HIV proteases and molecular modeling, a new type of inhibitors with a small P3 residue has been developed. These inhibitors are effective against HIV and its drug-resistant mutants, as well as SIV and FIV. Modification of existing HIV protease inhibitors by reducing the size of the P3 residue has the same effect. This finding provides a new strategy for the development of HIV protease inhibitors effective against the wild-type and drug-resistant mutants. It further supports the use of FIV protease as a useful model for drug-resistant HIV proteases, which often have a more constricted binding region for the P3 group or the combined P3 and P1 groups.