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Rapid Screening of HIV Reverse Transcriptase and Integrase Inhibitors
Published on: April 9, 2014
Follow on-based optimization of the biphenyl-DAPYs as HIV-1 nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors against
Yali Sang1, Sheng Han1, Shuwen Han1
1Engineering Center of Catalysis and Synthesis for Chiral Molecules, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China; Shanghai Engineering Center of Industrial Asymmetric Catalysis for Chiral Drugs, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The present work follows our preliminary discovery of biphenyl diarylpyrimidines (DAPYs) as HIV-1 nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Further structural optimization of biphenyl-DAPYs led to the identification of a new series of biphenyl-substituted thiophene[3,2-d]pyrimidine analogues by a scaffold-hopping strategy. Biological evaluation of this series showed that these compounds possessed up to single-digit nanomolar potency (EC50 = 7.8-526.2 nM) and prominently low toxicity (CC50 = 18.5-280.8 μM) against wild-type (WT) HIV-1-infected cells. Furthermore, the results also demonstrated that compounds 29-32 exhibited high, broad-spectrum antiviral effects against clinically observed HIV-1 mutants. Specifically, compound 30, which had the highest selectivity index (SI = 16094) and the best anti-reverse transcriptase ability (IC50 = 39 nM), displayed marked inhibitory activity (EC50 = 13.5, 9.4, 17.0, 52.0, and 58.2 nM) against WT, K103N, E138K, L100I, Y181C mutants and moderate activity against double mutants. This study provides important avenues for the further design of HIV-1 inhibitors.
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