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Title: Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants

Abstract

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a new class of exceptionally potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors are reported. Inhibitor 5 displayed superior antiviral activity and drug-resistance profiles. In fact, this inhibitor showed several orders of magnitude improved antiviral activity over the FDA approved drug darunavir. This inhibitor incorporates an unprecedented 6–5–5 ring-fused crown-like tetrahydropyranofuran as the P2 ligand and an aminobenzothiazole as the P2' ligand with the (R)-hydroxyethylsulfonamide isostere. The crown-like P2 ligand for this inhibitor has been synthesized efficiently in an optically active form using a chiral Diels–Alder catalyst providing a key intermediate in high enantiomeric purity. Furthermore, two high resolution X-ray structures of inhibitor-bound HIV-1 protease revealed extensive interactions with the backbone atoms of HIV-1 protease and provided molecular insight into the binding properties of these new inhibitors.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [4];  [6]
  1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  2. Kumamoto Univ. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Japan); Kumamoto Health Science Univ. (Japan); National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States)
  3. Kumamoto Univ. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Japan); National Center for Global Health and Medicine Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan)
  4. Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
  5. National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States)
  6. Kumamoto Univ. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Japan); National Center for Global Health and Medicine Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan); National Inst. of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Inst. of Health; Intramural Research Program of the Center for Cancer Research; National Cancer Inst.
OSTI Identifier:
1368286
Grant/Contract Number:  
GM53386; GM62920; W-31-109-Eng-38
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 60; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-2623
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Antimicrobial agents; Peptides and proteins; Ligands; Inhibitors; Noncovalent interactions

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Ghosh, Arun K., Rao, Kalapala Venkateswara, Nyalapatla, Prasanth R., Osswald, Heather L., Martyr, Cuthbert D., Aoki, Manabu, Hayashi, Hironori, Agniswamy, Johnson, Wang, Yuan-Fang, Bulut, Haydar, Das, Debananda, Weber, Irene T., and Mitsuya, Hiroaki. Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00172.
Ghosh, Arun K., Rao, Kalapala Venkateswara, Nyalapatla, Prasanth R., Osswald, Heather L., Martyr, Cuthbert D., Aoki, Manabu, Hayashi, Hironori, Agniswamy, Johnson, Wang, Yuan-Fang, Bulut, Haydar, Das, Debananda, Weber, Irene T., & Mitsuya, Hiroaki. Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00172
Ghosh, Arun K., Rao, Kalapala Venkateswara, Nyalapatla, Prasanth R., Osswald, Heather L., Martyr, Cuthbert D., Aoki, Manabu, Hayashi, Hironori, Agniswamy, Johnson, Wang, Yuan-Fang, Bulut, Haydar, Das, Debananda, Weber, Irene T., and Mitsuya, Hiroaki. Tue . "Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00172. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1368286.
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title = {Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants},
author = {Ghosh, Arun K. and Rao, Kalapala Venkateswara and Nyalapatla, Prasanth R. and Osswald, Heather L. and Martyr, Cuthbert D. and Aoki, Manabu and Hayashi, Hironori and Agniswamy, Johnson and Wang, Yuan-Fang and Bulut, Haydar and Das, Debananda and Weber, Irene T. and Mitsuya, Hiroaki},
abstractNote = {Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a new class of exceptionally potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors are reported. Inhibitor 5 displayed superior antiviral activity and drug-resistance profiles. In fact, this inhibitor showed several orders of magnitude improved antiviral activity over the FDA approved drug darunavir. This inhibitor incorporates an unprecedented 6–5–5 ring-fused crown-like tetrahydropyranofuran as the P2 ligand and an aminobenzothiazole as the P2' ligand with the (R)-hydroxyethylsulfonamide isostere. The crown-like P2 ligand for this inhibitor has been synthesized efficiently in an optically active form using a chiral Diels–Alder catalyst providing a key intermediate in high enantiomeric purity. Furthermore, two high resolution X-ray structures of inhibitor-bound HIV-1 protease revealed extensive interactions with the backbone atoms of HIV-1 protease and provided molecular insight into the binding properties of these new inhibitors.},
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journal = {Journal of Medicinal Chemistry},
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volume = 60,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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