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  3. Design and discovery of flavonoid-based HIV-1 integrase inhibitors targeting both the active site and the interaction with LEDGF/p75

Design and discovery of flavonoid-based HIV-1 integrase inhibitors targeting both the active site and the interaction with LEDGF/p75

  • Bioorg Med Chem. 2014 Jun 15;22(12):3146-58. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2014.04.016.
Bo-Wen Li 1,  Feng-Hua Zhang 2,  Erik Serrao 3,  Huan Chen 4,  Tino W Sanchez 3,  Liu-Meng Yang 4,  Nouri Neamati 3,  Yong-Tang Zheng 4,  Hui Wang 5,  Ya-Qiu Long 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China.
  • 2 CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China.
  • 3 Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
  • 4 Laboratory of Molecular Immunopharmacology, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
  • 5 School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. Electronic address: huiwang@scnu.edu.cn.
  • 6 CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China. Electronic address: yqlong@mail.shcnc.ac.cn.
PMID: 24794743 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2014.04.016
Abstract

HIV Integrase (IN) is an essential Enzyme for the viral replication. Currently, three IN inhibitors have been approved for treating HIV-1 Infection. All three drugs selectively inhibit the strand transfer reaction by chelating a divalent metal ion in the Enzyme active site. Flavonoids are a well-known class of Natural Products endowed with versatile biological activities. Their β-ketoenol or catechol structures can serve as a metal chelation motif and be exploited for the design of novel IN inhibitors. Using the metal chelation as a common pharmacophore, we introduced appropriate hydrophobic moieties into the flavonol core to design natural product-based novel IN inhibitors. We developed selective and efficient syntheses to generate a series of mono 3/5/7/3'/4'-substituted flavonoid derivatives. Most of these new compounds showed excellent HIV-1 IN inhibitory activity in enzyme-based assays and protected against HIV-1 Infection in cell-based assays. The 7-morpholino substituted 7c showed effective Antiviral activity (EC50=0.826 μg/mL) and high therapeutic index (TI>242). More significantly, these hydroxyflavones block the IN-LEDGF/p75 interaction with low- to sub-micromolar IC50 values and represent a novel scaffold to design new generation of drugs simultaneously targeting the catalytic site as well as protein-protein interaction domains.

Keywords

Chelation; Flavonoid; HIV-1 integrase inhibitors; LEDGF/p75; Strand transfer.

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