Fragment-based design of ligands targeting a novel site on the integrase enzyme of human immunodeficiency virus 1

Jerome Wielens, Stephen Headey, John Deadman, David Rhodes, G Le, Michael Parker, David Chalmers, Martin Scanlon

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Abstract

The genome of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encodes three enzymes that are essential for viral replication. Of these, the integrase (IN) enzyme remains significantly underexploited as a therapeutic target although clinically, inhibition of IN has been demonstrated to reduce viral load in HIV-1-infected individuals.[1] During the HIV replication cycle, IN catalyzes two reactions.[2] In the first, IN binds pro-viral cDNA in the host-cell cytoplasm and catalyzes the removal of two conserved nucleotides (GT) from the 3 -ends of the long terminal repeat (LTR) strands. Following 3 processing, the pre-integration complex (PIC) is transported into the nucleus where the second reaction-strand- transfer-occurs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)258 - 261
Number of pages4
JournalChemMedChem
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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