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Relationship between structural properties and affinity for herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase of bromine
I Creuven1, C Evrard, A Olivier
1Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire Structurale, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.
Antiviral Research
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
The crystal structures of 5-(5-furan-2-yl)-2'-deoxyuridine (II), 5-(5-bromofuran-2-yl)-2'-deoxyuridine (IV) and 5-(3-bromothien-2-yl)-2'-deoxyuridine (V) have been studied in order to explain the different affinity of the compounds for the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase. These compounds present a variable affinity according to the position of the heteroatom substituting the five-membered ring. An unfavourable substitution in the five-membered ring for interaction with the HSV-1 thymidine kinase has been identified.