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SUBMITTER: Dang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683702 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dang Zhao Z Xie Hua H Zhu Lei L Zhang Qingye Q Li Zhijun Z Huang Li L Chen Chin-Ho CH
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20171009 11
As a step toward developing novel anti-HIV agents, we have identified a class of quinolizidines, including aloperine, that inhibit HIV at 1-5 μM by blocking viral entry. In this study, we have optimized the structure of aloperine and derived compounds with markedly improved activity. Our structural optimization has yielded an aloperine derivative <b>19</b> with approximately a 15-fold increase in anti-HIV-1 activity. Our mechanism of action study reveals that compound <b>19</b> does not inhibit ...[more]