HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors (hiv-1 + protease_inhibitor)

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Selected Abstracts


Novel Heterocyclic Analogues of the HIV-1 Protease Inhibitor, Ritonavir.

CHEMINFORM, Issue 50 2004
Perry T. Kaye
Abstract For Abstract see ChemInform Abstract in Full Text. [source]


Structure,Activity Relationships of First Bishydroxymethyl-Substituted Cage Dimeric 4-Aryl-1,4-dihydropyridines as HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors.

CHEMINFORM, Issue 38 2003
Andreas Hilgeroth
Abstract For Abstract see ChemInform Abstract in Full Text. [source]


ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of First N-Alkyl syn Dimeric 4-Aryl-1,4-dihydropyridines as Competitive HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors.

CHEMINFORM, Issue 42 2001
Andreas Hilgeroth
Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source]


Correlation between the predicted and the observed biological activity of the symmetric and nonsymmetric cyclic urea derivatives used as HIV-1 protease inhibitors.

JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE, Issue 3 2003
A 3D-QSAR-CoMFA method for new antiviral drug design
Abstract The predicted inhibition constant (Ki) and the predicted inhibitor concentration (IC90) of the HIV-1 protease (HIV-1 PR) inhibitors: symmetric and nonsymmetric - benzyl, ketone, oxime, pyrazole, imidazole, and triazole cyclic urea derivatives, were obtained by the 3D-CoMFA (Comparative Molecular Field Analysis) method. The CoMFA statistical parameters: cross-validate correlation coefficient (q2), higher than 0.5, and the fitted correlation coefficient (r2), higher than 0.90 validated the predicted biological activities. The best predictions were found for the trifluoromethyl ketoxime derivative (log 1/Ki predict = 8.42), the m-pyridineCH2 pyrazole derivative (log 1/Ki predict = 9.77) and the 1,2,3 triazole derivative (log 1/Ki predict = 7.03). We attempted to design a new potent HIV-1 protease inhibitor by addition of o-benzyl to the (p-HOPhCH2) pyrazole 12f derivative inhibitor. A favorable steric area surrounded the o-benzyl, suggesting a possible new potent HIV-1 protease inhibitor. [source]


Accurate prediction of protonation state as a prerequisite for reliable MM-PB(GB)SA binding free energy calculations of HIV-1 protease inhibitors

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 5 2008
Kitiyaporn Wittayanarakul
Abstract Binding free energies were calculated for the inhibitors lopinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, indinavir, amprenavir, and nelfinavir bound to HIV-1 protease. An MMPB/SA-type analysis was applied to conformational samples from 3 ns explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations of the enzyme-inhibitor complexes. Binding affinities and the sampled conformations of the inhibitor and enzyme were compared between different HIV-1 protease protonation states to find the most likely protonation state of the enzyme in the complex with each of the inhibitors. The resulting set of protonation states leads to good agreement between calculated and experimental binding affinities. Results from the MMPB/SA analysis are compared with an explicit/implicit hybrid scheme and with MMGB/SA methods. It is found that the inclusion of explicit water molecules may offer a slight advantage in reproducing absolute binding free energies while the use of the Generalized Born approximation significantly affects the accuracy of the calculated binding affinities. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2008 [source]


TGSA-Flex: Extending the capabilities of the Topo-Geometrical superposition algorithm to handle flexible molecules

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2004
Xavier Gironés
Abstract In this work, an extension of the already studied Topo-Geometrical Superposition Approach (TGSA) is presented. TGSA, a general-purpose, fast, automatic, and user-intuitive three-dimensional molecular alignment procedure, was originally designed to superpose rigid molecules simply based on atomic numbers, molecular coordinates, and connectivity. The algorithm is further developed to enable handling rotations around single bonds; in this way, common structural features, which were not properly aligned due to conformational causes, can be brought together, thus improving the molecular similarity picture of the final alignment. The present procedure, implemented in Fortran 90 and named TGSA-Flex, is deeply detailed and tested over four molecular sets: amino acids, nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) derivatives, HIV-1 protease inhibitors, and 1-[2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine (HEPT) derivatives. TGSA-Flex performance is evaluated by means of computational time, number of superposed atoms (also comparing it with respect to the rigid approach), and index of fit between the compared structures. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 25: 153,159, 2004 [source]


Kinetic and thermodynamic characterization of HIV-1 protease inhibitors

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR RECOGNITION, Issue 2 2004
Cynthia F. Shuman
Abstract Interaction kinetic and thermodynamic analyses provide information beyond that obtained in general inhibition studies, and may contribute to the design of improved inhibitors and increased understanding of molecular interactions. Thus, a biosensor-based method was used to characterize the interactions between HIV-1 protease and seven inhibitors, revealing distinguishing kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics for the inhibitors. Lopinavir had fast association and the highest affinity of the tested compounds, and the interaction kinetics were less temperature-dependent as compared with the other inhibitors. Amprenavir, indinavir and ritonavir showed non-linear temperature dependencies of the kinetics. The free energy, enthalpy and entropy (,G, ,H, ,S) were determined, and the energetics of complex association (,Gon, ,Hon, ,Son) and dissociation (,Goff, ,Hoff, ,Soff) were resolved. In general, the energetics for the studied inhibitors was in the same range, with the negative free energy change (,G,<,0) due primarily to increased entropy (,S,>,0). Thus, the driving force of the interaction was increased degrees of freedom in the system (entropy) rather than the formation of bonds between the enzyme and inhibitor (enthalpy). Although the ,Gon and ,Goff were in the same range for all inhibitors, the enthalpy and entropy terms contributed differently to association and dissociation, distinguishing these phases energetically. Dissociation was accompanied by positive enthalpy (,Hoff,>,0) and negative entropy (,Soff,<,0) changes, whereas association for all inhibitors except lopinavir had positive entropy changes (,Son,>,0), demonstrating unique energetic characteristics for lopinavir. This study indicates that this type of data will be useful for the characterization of target,ligand interactions and the development of new inhibitors of HIV-1 protease. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Pharmacokinetic interaction between efavirenz and dual protease inhibitors in healthy volunteers

BIOPHARMACEUTICS AND DRUG DISPOSITION, Issue 2 2008
Qing Ma
Abstract The combination of efavirenz with HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PI) results in complex interactions secondary to mixed induction and inhibition of oxidative metabolism. ACTG A5043 was a prospective, open-label, controlled, two-period, multiple-dose study with 55 healthy volunteers. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the potential pharmacokinetic interaction between efavirenz and dual PIs. The subjects received a daily dose of 600,mg efavirenz for 10 days with amprenavir 600,mg twice daily added at day 11 and were randomized to receive nelfinavir, indinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, or no second PI on days 15,21. Intensive pharmacokinetic studies were conducted on day 14 and 21. Efavirenz plasma concentrations were fit to candidate models using weighted non-linear regression. The disposition of efavirenz was described by a linear two-compartment model with first order absorption following a fitted lag time. Apparent clearance (CLt/F), volume of distribution at steady state (Vss/F), inter-compartmental clearance, and the central and peripheral volume of distribution were estimated. The mean CLt/F and Vss/F of efavirenz were 0.126,l/h/kg and 4.412,l/kg, respectively. Both AUC and CLt/F of efavirenz remained unchanged after 7 days of dual PI dosing. The mean Vss/F of efavirenz increased an average of 89% across arms, ranging from 52% (nelfinavir) to 115% (indinavir) relative to efavirenz with amprenavir alone. Increases were also observed in Vp/F after the addition of nelfinavir, indinavir, ritonavir and saquinavir by 85%, 170%, 162% and 111%, respectively. In conclusion, concomitant administration of dual PIs is unlikely to have any clinically significant effect on the pharmacokinetics of CYP2B6 substrates in general or oral efavirenz specifically. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]