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Benedetta Fois1, Angela Corona1, Enzo Tramontano1,2, Simona Distinto1, Elias Maccioni1, Rita Meleddu1, Pierluigi Caboni1, Costantino Floris3, Filippo Cottiglia1.
Abstract
Bioassay-guided fractionation of the ethyl acetate extract from Teucrium flavum subsp. glaucum, endowed with inhibitory activity towards the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase-associated RNase H function, led to the isolation of salvigenin (1), cirsimaritin (2) and cirsiliol (3) along with the neo-clerodanes teuflavin (4) and teuflavoside (5). Acid hydrolysis of the inactive teuflavoside provided three undescribed neo-clerodanes, flavuglaucins A-C (7-9) and one known neo-clerodane (10). Among all neo-clerodanes, flavuglaucin B showed the highest inhibitory activity towards RNase H function with a IC50 value of 9.1 μM. Molecular modelling and site-directed mutagenesis analysis suggested that flavuglaucin B binds into an allosteric pocket close to RNase H catalytic site. This is the first report of clerodane diterpenoids endowed with anti-reverse transcriptase activity. Neo-clerodanes represent a valid scaffold for the development of a new class of HIV-1 RNase H inhibitors.Entities:
Keywords: HIV; RNase H; Teucrium flavum; flavonoids; neo-clerodane diterpenes; reverse transcriptase
Year: 2021 PMID: 33715562 PMCID: PMC7952052 DOI: 10.1080/14756366.2021.1887170
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem ISSN: 1475-6366 Impact factor: 5.051