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Molecular and cellular studies evaluating a potent 2-cyanoindolizine catechol diether NNRTI targeting wildtype and Y181C mutant HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.

ABSTRACT: The development of efficacious NNRTIs for HIV/AIDS therapy is commonly met with the emergence of drug resistant strains, including the Y181C variant. Using a computationally-guided approach, we synthesized the catechol diether series of NNRTIs, which display sub-nanomolar potency in cellular assays. Among the most potent were a series of 2-cyanoindolizine substituted catechol diethers, including Compound 1. We present here a thorough evaluation of this compound, including biochemical, cellular, and structural studies. The compound demonstrates low nanomolar potency against both WT and Y181C HIV-1 RT in in vitro and cellular assays. Our crystal structures of both the wildtype and mutant forms of RT in complex with Compound 1 allow the interrogation of this compound's features that allow it to maintain strong efficacy against the drug resistant mutant. Among these are compensatory shifts in the NNRTI binding pocket, persistence of multiple hydrogen bonds, and van der Waals contacts throughout the binding site. Further, the fluorine at the C6 position of the indolizine moiety makes multiple favorable interactions with both RT forms. The present study highlights the indolizine-substituted catechol diether class of NNRTIs as promising therapeutic candidates possessing optimal pharmacological properties and significant potency against multiple RT variants.

SUBMITTER: Sasaki T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690785 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular and cellular studies evaluating a potent 2-cyanoindolizine catechol diether NNRTI targeting wildtype and Y181C mutant HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.

Sasaki Tomoaki T Gannam Zira T K ZTK Kudalkar Shalley N SN Frey Kathleen M KM Lee Won-Gil WG Spasov Krasimir A KA Jorgensen William L WL Anderson Karen S KS

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20190626 16

The development of efficacious NNRTIs for HIV/AIDS therapy is commonly met with the emergence of drug resistant strains, including the Y181C variant. Using a computationally-guided approach, we synthesized the catechol diether series of NNRTIs, which display sub-nanomolar potency in cellular assays. Among the most potent were a series of 2-cyanoindolizine substituted catechol diethers, including Compound 1. We present here a thorough evaluation of this compound, including biochemical, cellular, ...[more]

PMID: 31281023

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Project description:Despite achieving considerable success in reducing the number of fatalities due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, emergence of resistance against the reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor drugs remains one of the biggest challenges of the human immunodeficiency virus antiretroviral therapy (ART). Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) form a large class of drugs and a crucial component of ART. In NNRTIs, even a single resistance mutation is known to make the drugs completely ineffective. Additionally, several inhibitor-bound RTs with single resistance mutations do not exhibit any significant variations in their three-dimensional structures compared with the inhibitor-bound RT but completely nullify their inhibitory functions. This makes understanding the structural mechanism of these resistance mutations crucial for drug development. Here, we study several single resistance mutations in the allosteric inhibitor (nevirapine)-bound RT to analyze the mechanism of small structural changes leading to these large functional effects. In this study, we have shown that in absence of significant conformational variations in the inhibitor-bound wild-type RT and RT with single resistance mutations, the protein contact network analysis of their static structures, along with molecular dynamics simulations, can be a useful approach to understand the functional effect of small local conformational variations. The simple network analysis exposes the localized contact changes that lead to global rearrangement in the communication pattern within RT. Furthermore, these conformational changes have implications on the overall dynamics of RT. Using various measures, we show that a single resistance mutation can change the network structure and dynamics of RT to behave more like unbound RT, even in the presence of the inhibitor. This combined coarse-grained contact network and molecular dynamics approach promises to be a useful tool to analyze structure-function studies of proteins that show large functional changes with negligible variations in their overall conformation.

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Molecular and cellular studies evaluating a potent 2-cyanoindolizine catechol diether NNRTI targeting wildtype and Y181C mutant HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.

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Molecular and cellular studies evaluating a potent 2-cyanoindolizine catechol diether NNRTI targeting wildtype and Y181C mutant HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.

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