合规约束作为一种了解RNA-氨基甘油酸特异性的手段
Kenneth F Blount1, Fang Zhao, Thomas Hermann
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 7, 2005
概括
氨基甘油酸抗生素由于灵活的结构,具有较差的RNA标选择性. 限制这些抗生素会改变它们的结构,从而有可能提高治疗RNA标的选择性.
科学领域:
- 药用化学 医学化学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 药物发现 药物发现 药物发现
背景情况:
- 氨基甘油酸抗生素由于灵活的结构和静电结合而缺乏高RNA标选择性.
- 这种形状的适应性允许结合到不同的RNA标,形成具有不同抗生素形状的复合体.
研究的目的:
- 调查是否有共价连接的氨基糖化物环可以降低构造灵活性并增强目标选择性.
- 为了合成和评估对治疗相关的RNA标 (A位点和HIV TAR) 进行结合的构造上受约束的neomycin和paromomycin类似物.
主要方法:
- 合成结构受约束的氨基糖化物类似物 (neomycin,paromomycin).
- 这些类似物与A位点和HIV TAR RNA的结合亲缘关系的评估.
主要成果:
- 构造约束对A位点RNA的结合影响最小.
- 令人惊的是,将抗生素预先组织成TAR不利的结构并没有影响与HIV的结合.
- 两个RNA点,A位点和HIV TAR,都对氨基糖化物表现出固有的选择性.
结论:
- 由于其结构和TAR RNA的可塑性,A位点RNA是一个比HIV TAR RNA更具歧视性的目标.
- 未来基于RNA的治疗设计必须考虑RNA标的固有结构选择性,而不仅仅是连接体选择性.
- 形态受约束的氨基糖化物为开发更有选择性的RNA向药物提供了潜在的途径.
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