HIV Integrase Modeling and Computer-Aided Inhibitor Deve

HIV整合酶建模和计算机辅助抑制剂开发

• 批准号: 7291875
• 负责人: MARC NICKLAUS
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7291875
• 关键词: HIV; Integrase; Modeling; Computer; Aided

The principal objective of this project is to elucidate the structure of the HIV-1 integrase protein, complexed with DNA and/or inhibitors, and to use the structural knowledge thus obtained to design better inhibitors of this enzyme with the goal of developing new anti-AIDS drugs. HIV integrase (IN) is the virally encoded enzyme responsible for integration of the retroviral DNA into the host genome. This step in the life cycle of HIV is essential for viral replication. Inhibition of integration is seen as an attractive target in the development of anti-AIDS therapies because no cellular homologue to IN is known, thus raising the hope that effective anti-IN based drugs with low-toxicity can be developed. The emergence of multidrug-resistant virus phenotypes during administration of cocktails of protease and reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors has further highlighted the need for alternative therapeutic approaches. IN is a 32kDa protein that is a product of the gag-pol fusion protein precursor contained in the virus particle. Upon completion of proviral DNA synthesis by RT, IN cleaves two nucleotides from each viral DNA end ("3'-processing"). After subsequent migration to the host cell's nucleus, IN catalyzes the insertion of the recessed 3'-terminus, generated during the 3'-processing step, into one strand of the host DNA. This reaction is termed 3' end joining (also known as integration or strand transfer) and occurs for both ends of the viral DNA simultaneously. The subsequent gap-joining is presumed to be performed by cellular DNA repair enzymes to yield a fully integrated proviral DNA. Previous work, mainly based on 3D-pharmacophore searches in the NCI database, had yielded a number of inhibitors of IN. With the advent of more, and better, experimental structures (by X-ray crystallography and NMR) of HIV-1 IN as well as of closely related enzymes such as ASV integrase, it has become possible to model larger structures including multimeric models of the full-length protein, for which experimental structures are not available as of yet. We have generated such structures by means of molecular modeling techniques using all available experimental evidence. Special emphasis was placed on obtaining a model of the enzyme's active site with the viral DNA apposed to it as it might be after 3'-processing but before strand transfer, as described in Karki et al., 2004. This model is useful for structure-based inhibitor design of inhibitors which retain activity in vivo. We have made use of these structural models to study the potential binding modes of various diketo-acid HIV-1 IN inhibitors for which no experimental complexed structures are available. The results indicate that the diketo-acid IN inhibitors probably chelate the metal ion in the catalytic site and also prevents the exposure of the 3'-processed end of the viral DNA to human DNA. These models are currently being exploited for further inhibitor development using the resources described in our database project, in particular through in silico screening of a database of more than 14 million purchasable screening samples.

该项目的主要目标是阐明与 DNA 和/或抑制剂复合的 HIV-1 整合酶蛋白的结构，并利用由此获得的结构知识设计该酶更好的抑制剂，目标是开发新的抗艾滋病药物。 HIV 整合酶 (IN) 是病毒编码的酶，负责将逆转录病毒 DNA 整合到宿主基因组中。 HIV生命周期中的这一步骤对于病毒复制至关重要。整合的抑制被视为抗艾滋病疗法开发中有吸引力的目标，因为尚无与IN同源的细胞，因此提高了开发有效的低毒性抗IN药物的希望。在施用蛋白酶和逆转录酶（RT）抑制剂混合物期间出现的多重耐药病毒表型进一步凸显了对替代治疗方法的需求。 IN是一种32kDa的蛋白质，是病毒颗粒中含有的gag-pol融合蛋白前体的产物。通过 RT 完成原病毒 DNA 合成后，IN 从每个病毒 DNA 末端切割两个核苷酸（“3'-加工”）。随后迁移至宿主细胞核后，IN 催化将 3' 加工步骤中产生的凹进 3' 末端插入宿主 DNA 的一条链中。该反应称为 3' 末端连接（也称为整合或链转移），并且病毒 DNA 的两端同时发生。据推测，随后的间隙连接是由细胞 DNA 修复酶进行的，以产生完全整合的原病毒 DNA。 之前的工作主要基于 NCI 数据库中的 3D 药效团搜索，已经产生了许多 IN 抑制剂。随着更多、更好的 HIV-1 IN 实验结构（通过 X 射线晶体学和 NMR）以及密切相关的酶（如 ASV 整合酶）的出现，对更大的结构进行建模，包括多聚体模型已成为可能。全长蛋白质，目前尚无其实验结构。我们利用所有可用的实验证据，通过分子建模技术生成了这样的结构。特别强调获得酶活性位点的模型以及与其相连的病毒 DNA，因为它可能是在 3' 处理之后但在链转移之前，如 Karki 等人，2004 年所述。该模型对于结构非常有用保留体内活性的基于抑制剂的抑制剂设计。我们利用这些结构模型来研究各种二酮酸 HIV-1 IN 抑制剂的潜在结合模式，但目前还没有可用的实验复合结构。结果表明，二酮酸IN抑制剂可能会螯合催化位点的金属离子，并且还可以防止病毒DNA的3'加工末端暴露于人类DNA。目前，这些模型正在利用我们的数据库项目中描述的资源进行进一步的抑制剂开发，特别是通过对包含超过 1400 万个可购买筛选样本的数据库进行计算机筛选。