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Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Activity Prediction, and Molecular Dynamics of Non-nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
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Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-amines as potential HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Moira L Bode1, David Gravestock, Simon S Moleele
1CSIR Biosciences, Private Bag X2, Modderfontein, Johannesburg 1645, South Africa. mbode@csir.co.za
Abstract:
During random screening of a small in-house library of compounds, certain substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines were found to be weak allosteric inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). A library of these compounds was prepared using the Groebke reaction and a subset of compounds prepared from 2-chlorobenzaldehyde, cyclohexyl isocyanide and a 6-substituted 2-aminopyridine showed good inhibitory activity in enzymatic (RT) and HIV anti-infectivity MAGI whole cell assays. The compound showing the best anti-HIV-1 IIIB whole cell activity (MAGI IC(50)=0.18 μM, IC(90)=1.06 μM), along with a good selectivity index (>800), was 2-(2-chlorophenyl)-3-(cyclohexylamino)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-5-carbonitrile 38.
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