| Literature DB >> 27676157 |
Yu Zhao1, Qiong Gu1,2, Susan L Morris-Natschke1, Chin-Ho Chen3, Kuo-Hsiung Lee1,4.
Abstract
Two "privileged fragments", caffeic acid and piperazine, were integrated into bevirimat producing new derivatives with improved activity against HIV-1/NL4-3 and NL4-3/V370A carrying the most prevalent bevirimat-resistant polymorphism. The activity of one of these, 18c, was increased by 3-fold against NL4-3 and 51-fold against NL4-3/V370A. Moreover, 18c is a maturation inhibitor with improved metabolic stability. Our study suggested that integration of privileged motifs into promising natural product skeletons is an effective strategy for discovering potent derivatives.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27676157 PMCID: PMC5151175 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b00461
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446