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SUBMITTER: Aboye TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3521869 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aboye Teshome L TL Ha Helen H Majumder Subhabrata S Christ Frauke F Debyser Zeger Z Shekhtman Alexander A Neamati Nouri N Camarero Julio A JA
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20121127 23
Herein, we report for the first time the design and synthesis of a novel cyclotide able to efficiently inhibit HIV-1 viral replication by selectively targeting cytokine receptor CXCR4. This was accomplished by grafting a series of topologically modified CVX15 based peptides onto the loop 6 of cyclotide MCoTI-I. The most active compound produced in this study was a potent CXCR4 antagonist (EC50≈20 nM) and an efficient HIV-1 cell-entry blocker (EC50≈2 nM). This cyclotide also showed high stability ...[more]