Title

Additivity in the analysis and design of HIV protease inhibitors

UMMS Affiliation

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Publication Date

2009-02-06

Document Type

Article

Subjects

Binding Sites; Carbamates; Crystallography; Drug Design; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; HIV Protease; HIV Protease Inhibitors; Kinetics; Models, Molecular; Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship

Disciplines

Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health

Abstract

We explore the applicability of an additive treatment of substituent effects to the analysis and design of HIV protease inhibitors. Affinity data for a set of inhibitors with a common chemical framework were analyzed to provide estimates of the free energy contribution of each chemical substituent. These estimates were then used to design new inhibitors whose high affinities were confirmed by synthesis and experimental testing. Derivations of additive models by least-squares and ridge-regression methods were found to yield statistically similar results. The additivity approach was also compared with standard molecular descriptor-based QSAR; the latter was not found to provide superior predictions. Crystallographic studies of HIV protease-inhibitor complexes help explain the perhaps surprisingly high degree of substituent additivity in this system, and allow some of the additivity coefficients to be rationalized on a structural basis.

DOI of Published Version

10.1021/jm8009525

Source

J Med Chem. 2009 Feb 12;52(3):737-54. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of medicinal chemistry

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PubMed ID

19193159

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