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Adel A Rashad1, Ramalingam Venkat Kalyana Sundaram1,2, Rachna Aneja1, Caitlin Duffy1, Irwin Chaiken1.
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We derived macrocyclic HIV-1 antagonists as a new class of peptidomimetic drug leads. Cyclic peptide triazoles (cPTs) retained the gp120 inhibitory and virus-inactivating signature of parent PTs, arguing that cyclization locked an active conformation. The six-residue cPT 9 (AAR029b) exhibited submicromolar antiviral potencies in inhibiting cell infection and triggering gp120 shedding that causes irreversible virion inactivation. Importantly, cPTs were stable to trypsin and chymotrypsin compared to substantial susceptibility of corresponding linear PTs.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26331669 PMCID: PMC4936186 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00935
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446