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Viruses ; 16(2)2024 Jan 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38399977

RESUMO

Allosteric HIV-1 Integrase (IN) Inhibitors or ALLINIs bind at the dimer interface of the IN, away from the enzymatic catalytic site, and disable viral replication by inducing over-multimerization of IN. Interestingly, these inhibitors are capable of impacting both the early and late stages of viral replication. To better understand the important binding features of multi-substituted quinoline-based ALLINIs, we have surveyed published studies on IN multimerization and antiviral properties of various substituted quinolines at the 4, 6, 7, and 8 positions. Here we show how the efficacy of these inhibitors can be modulated by the nature of the substitutions at those positions. These features not only improve the overall antiviral potencies of these compounds but also significantly shift the selectivity toward the viral maturation stage. Thus, to fully maximize the potency of ALLINIs, the interactions between the inhibitor and multiple IN subunits need to be simultaneously optimized.


Assuntos
Inibidores de Integrase de HIV , Integrase de HIV , HIV-1 , Quinolinas , HIV-1/metabolismo , Regulação Alostérica , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , Quinolinas/farmacologia , Multimerização Proteica
2.
Langmuir ; 40(2): 1213-1222, 2024 01 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38174900

RESUMO

In biological systems, proteins can bind to nanoparticles to form a "corona" of adsorbed molecules. The nanoparticle corona is of significant interest because it impacts an organism's response to a nanomaterial. Understanding the corona requires knowledge of protein structure, orientation, and dynamics at the surface. A residue-level mapping of protein behavior on nanoparticle surfaces is needed, but this mapping is difficult to obtain with traditional approaches. Here, we have investigated the interaction between R2ab and polystyrene nanoparticles (PSNPs) at the level of individual residues. R2ab is a bacterial surface protein from Staphylococcus epidermidis and is known to interact strongly with polystyrene, leading to biofilm formation. We have used mass spectrometry after lysine methylation and hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) NMR spectroscopy to understand how the R2ab protein interacts with PSNPs of different sizes. Lysine methylation experiments reveal subtle but statistically significant changes in methylation patterns in the presence of PSNPs, indicating altered protein surface accessibility. HDX rates become slower overall in the presence of PSNPs. However, some regions of the R2ab protein exhibit faster than average exchange rates in the presence of PSNPs, while others are slower than the average behavior, suggesting conformational changes upon binding. HDX rates and methylation ratios support a recently proposed "adsorbotope" model for PSNPs, wherein adsorbed proteins consist of unfolded anchor points interspersed with partially structured regions. Our data also highlight the challenges of characterizing complex protein-nanoparticle interactions using these techniques, such as fast exchange rates. While providing insights into how R2ab adsorbs onto PSNP surfaces, this research emphasizes the need for advanced methods to comprehend residue-level interactions in the nanoparticle corona.


Assuntos
Nanopartículas , Poliestirenos , Poliestirenos/química , Lisina , Proteínas/química , Nanopartículas/química , Biofilmes
3.
bioRxiv ; 2023 Sep 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37693402

RESUMO

In biological systems, proteins can bind to nanoparticles to form a "corona" of adsorbed molecules. The nanoparticle corona is of high interest because it impacts the organism's response to the nanomaterial. Understanding the corona requires knowledge of protein structure, orientation, and dynamics at the surface. Ultimately, a residue-level mapping of protein behavior on nanoparticle surfaces is needed, but this mapping is difficult to obtain with traditional approaches. Here, we have investigated the interaction between R2ab and polystyrene nanoparticles (PSNPs) at the level of individual residues. R2ab is a bacterial surface protein from Staphylococcus epidermidis and is known to interact strongly with polystyrene, leading to biofilm formation. We have used mass spectrometry after lysine methylation and hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) NMR spectroscopy to understand how the R2ab protein interacts with PSNPs of different sizes. Through lysine methylation, we observe subtle but statistically significant changes in methylation patterns in the presence of PSNPs, indicating altered protein surface accessibility. HDX measurements reveal that certain regions of the R2ab protein undergo faster exchange rates in the presence of PSNPs, suggesting conformational changes upon binding. Both results support a recently proposed "adsorbotope" model, wherein adsorbed proteins consist of unfolded anchor points interspersed with regions of partial structure. Our data also highlight the challenges of characterizing complex protein-nanoparticle interactions using these techniques, such as fast exchange rates. While providing insights into how proteins respond to nanoparticle surfaces, this research emphasizes the need for advanced methods to comprehend these intricate interactions fully at the residue level.

4.
Viruses ; 14(7)2022 07 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35891446

RESUMO

Allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors, or ALLINIs, are a new class of antiviral agents that bind at the dimer interface of the IN, away from the enzymatic catalytic site and block viral replication by triggering an aberrant multimerization of the viral enzyme. To further our understanding of the important binding features of multi-substituted quinoline-based ALLINIs, we have examined the IN multimerization and antiviral properties of substitution patterns at the 6 or 8 position. We found that the binding properties of these ALLINIs are negatively impacted by the presence of bulky substitutions at these positions. In addition, we have observed that the addition of bromine at either the 6 (6-bromo) or 8 (8-bromo) position conferred better antiviral properties. Finally, we found a significant loss of potency with the 6-bromo when tested with the ALLINI-resistant IN A128T mutant virus, while the 8-bromo analog retained full effectiveness.


Assuntos
Inibidores de Integrase de HIV , Integrase de HIV , HIV-1 , Quinolinas , Regulação Alostérica , Antivirais/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , HIV-1/metabolismo , Quinolinas/farmacologia , Replicação Viral
5.
J Biol Chem ; 296: 100363, 2021.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33539919

RESUMO

During the integration step, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase (IN) interacts with viral DNA and the cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75 to effectively integrate the reverse transcript into the host chromatin. Allosteric human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase inhibitors (ALLINIs) are a new class of antiviral agents that bind at the dimer interface of the IN catalytic core domain and occupy the binding site of LEDGF/p75. While originally designed to block IN-LEDGF/p75 interactions during viral integration, several of these compounds have been shown to also severely impact viral maturation through an IN multimerization mechanism. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that these dual properties of ALLINIs could be decoupled toward late stage viral replication effects by generating additional contact points between the bound ALLINI and a third subunit of IN. By sequential derivatization at position 7 of a quinoline-based ALLINI scaffold, we show that IN multimerization properties are enhanced by optimizing hydrophobic interactions between the compound and the C-terminal domain of the third IN subunit. These features not only improve the overall antiviral potencies of these compounds but also significantly shift the ALLINIs selectivity toward the viral maturation stage. Thus, we demonstrate that to fully maximize the potency of ALLINIs, the interactions between the inhibitor and all three IN subunits need to be simultaneously optimized.


Assuntos
Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/metabolismo , Quinolinas/farmacologia , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Antivirais/farmacologia , Células HEK293 , Integrase de HIV/fisiologia , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , HIV-1/patogenicidade , Humanos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Ligação Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Quinolinas/química , Quinolinas/metabolismo , Integração Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Replicação Viral/efeitos dos fármacos
6.
Beilstein J Org Chem ; 14: 2529-2536, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30344776

RESUMO

A convenient two-step synthesis of ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-methylquinoline-3-carboxylate derivatives has been developed starting from commercially available 2-aminobenzoic acids. In step 1, the anthranilic acids are smoothly converted to isatoic anhydrides using solid triphosgene in THF. In step 2, the anhydride electrophiles are reacted with the sodium enolate of ethyl acetoacetate, generated from sodium hydroxide, in warm N,N-dimethylacetamide resulting in the formation of substituted quinolines. A degradation-build-up strategy of the ethyl ester at the 3-position allowed for the construction of the α-hydroxyacetic acid residue required for the synthesis of key arylquinolines involved in an HIV integrase project.

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ACS Med Chem Lett ; 9(10): 1007-1012, 2018 Oct 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30344908

RESUMO

HIV-1 integrase multimerization inhibitors have recently been established as an effective class of antiretroviral agents due to their potent ability to inhibit viral replication. Specifically, quinoline-based inhibitors have been shown to effectively impair HIV-1 replication, highlighting the importance of these heterocyclic scaffolds. Pursuant of our endeavors to further develop a library of quinoline-based candidates, we have implemented a structure-activity relationship study of trisubstituted 4-arylquinoline scaffolds that examined the integrase multimerization properties of substitution patterns at the 4-position of the quinoline. Compounds consisting of substituted phenyl rings, heteroaromatics, or polycyclic moieties were examined utilizing an integrase aberrant multimerization in vitro assay. para-Chloro-4-phenylquinoline 11b and 2,3-benzo[b][1,4]dioxine 15f showed noteworthy EC50 values of 0.10 and 0.08 µM, respectively.

8.
Molecules ; 23(8)2018 Jul 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30049955

RESUMO

HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors represent a new class of highly effective anti-AIDS therapeutics. Current FDA-approved IN strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs) share a common mechanism of action that involves chelation of catalytic divalent metal ions. However, the emergence of IN mutants having reduced sensitivity to these inhibitors underlies efforts to derive agents that antagonize IN function by alternate mechanisms. Integrase along with the 96-residue multifunctional accessory protein, viral protein R (Vpr), are both components of the HIV-1 pre-integration complex (PIC). Coordinated interactions within the PIC are important for viral replication. Herein, we report a 7-mer peptide based on the shortened Vpr (69⁻75) sequence containing a biotin group and a photo-reactive benzoylphenylalanyl residue, and which exhibits low micromolar IN inhibitory potency. Photo-crosslinking experiments have indicated that the peptide directly binds IN. The peptide does not interfere with IN-DNA interactions or induce higher-order, aberrant IN multimerization, suggesting a mode of action for the peptide that is distinct from clinically used INSTIs and developmental allosteric IN inhibitors. This compact Vpr-derived peptide may serve as a valuable pharmacological tool to identify a potential new pharmacologic site.


Assuntos
Produtos do Gene vpr/química , Produtos do Gene vpr/metabolismo , Infecções por HIV/virologia , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/fisiologia , Peptídeos/farmacologia , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/síntese química , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Modelos Moleculares , Peptídeos/síntese química , Peptídeos/química , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Domínios e Motivos de Interação entre Proteínas , Multimerização Proteica
9.
J Biol Chem ; 291(45): 23569-23577, 2016 Nov 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27645997

RESUMO

HIV-1 integrase (IN) is essential for virus replication and represents an important multifunctional therapeutic target. Recently discovered quinoline-based allosteric IN inhibitors (ALLINIs) potently impair HIV-1 replication and are currently in clinical trials. ALLINIs exhibit a multimodal mechanism of action by inducing aberrant IN multimerization during virion morphogenesis and by competing with IN for binding to its cognate cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75 during early steps of HIV-1 infection. However, quinoline-based ALLINIs impose a low genetic barrier for the evolution of resistant phenotypes, which highlights a need for discovery of second-generation inhibitors. Using crystallographic screening of a library of 971 fragments against the HIV-1 IN catalytic core domain (CCD) followed by a fragment expansion approach, we have identified thiophenecarboxylic acid derivatives that bind at the CCD-CCD dimer interface at the principal lens epithelium-derived growth factor (LEDGF)/p75 binding pocket. The most active derivative (5) inhibited LEDGF/p75-dependent HIV-1 IN activity in vitro with an IC50 of 72 µm and impaired HIV-1 infection of T cells at an EC50 of 36 µm The identified lead compound, with a relatively small molecular weight (221 Da), provides an optimal building block for developing a new class of inhibitors. Furthermore, although structurally distinct thiophenecarboxylic acid derivatives target a similar pocket at the IN dimer interface as the quinoline-based ALLINIs, the lead compound, 5, inhibited IN mutants that confer resistance to quinoline-based compounds. Collectively, our findings provide a plausible path for structure-based development of second-generation ALLINIs.


Assuntos
Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , Tiofenos/química , Tiofenos/farmacologia , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Ácidos Carboxílicos/química , Ácidos Carboxílicos/farmacologia , Domínio Catalítico/efeitos dos fármacos , Cristalografia por Raios X , Descoberta de Drogas , Células HEK293 , Infecções por HIV/virologia , Integrase de HIV/química , Humanos , Modelos Moleculares , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular
10.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett ; 26(19): 4748-4752, 2016 10 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27568085

RESUMO

Employing a scaffold hopping approach, a series of allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors (ALLINIs) have been synthesized based on an indole scaffold. These compounds incorporate the key elements utilized in quinoline-based ALLINIs for binding to the IN dimer interface at the principal LEDGF/p75 binding pocket. The most potent of these compounds displayed good activity in the LEDGF/p75 dependent integration assay (IC50=4.5µM) and, as predicted based on the geometry of the five- versus six-membered ring, retained activity against the A128T IN mutant that confers resistance to many quinoline-based ALLINIs.


Assuntos
Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/efeitos dos fármacos , Indóis/farmacologia , Regulação Alostérica , Cristalografia por Raios X , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Ligação de Hidrogênio , Relação Estrutura-Atividade
11.
Cell ; 166(5): 1257-1268.e12, 2016 Aug 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27565348

RESUMO

While an essential role of HIV-1 integrase (IN) for integration of viral cDNA into human chromosome is established, studies with IN mutants and allosteric IN inhibitors (ALLINIs) have suggested that IN can also influence viral particle maturation. However, it has remained enigmatic as to how IN contributes to virion morphogenesis. Here, we demonstrate that IN directly binds the viral RNA genome in virions. These interactions have specificity, as IN exhibits distinct preference for select viral RNA structural elements. We show that IN substitutions that selectively impair its binding to viral RNA result in eccentric, non-infectious virions without affecting nucleocapsid-RNA interactions. Likewise, ALLINIs impair IN binding to viral RNA in virions of wild-type, but not escape mutant, virus. These results reveal an unexpected biological role of IN binding to the viral RNA genome during virion morphogenesis and elucidate the mode of action of ALLINIs.


Assuntos
Genoma Viral , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/crescimento & desenvolvimento , RNA Viral/metabolismo , Vírion/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Células HEK293 , Integrase de HIV/genética , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , HIV-1/enzimologia , Humanos , Morfogênese , Nucleocapsídeo/efeitos dos fármacos , Ligação Proteica , Vírion/efeitos dos fármacos , Vírion/enzimologia , Integração Viral/efeitos dos fármacos
12.
ACS Chem Biol ; 11(5): 1313-21, 2016 05 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26910179

RESUMO

Allosteric HIV-1 integrase inhibitors (ALLINIs) have recently emerged as a promising class of antiretroviral agents and are currently in clinical trials. In infected cells, ALLINIs potently inhibit viral replication by impairing virus particle maturation but surprisingly exhibit a reduced EC50 for inhibiting HIV-1 integration in target cells. To better understand the reduced antiviral activity of ALLINIs during the early stage of HIV-1 replication, we investigated the competitive interplay between a potent representative ALLINI, BI/D, and LEDGF/p75 with HIV-1 integrase. While the principal binding sites of BI/D and LEDGF/p75 overlap at the integrase catalytic core domain dimer interface, we show that the inhibitor and the cellular cofactor induce markedly different multimerization patterns of full-length integrase. LEDGF/p75 stabilizes an integrase tetramer through the additional interactions with the integrase N-terminal domain, whereas BI/D induces protein-protein interactions in C-terminal segments that lead to aberrant, higher-order integrase multimerization. We demonstrate that LEDGF/p75 binds HIV-1 integrase with significantly higher affinity than BI/D and that the cellular protein is able to reverse the inhibitor induced aberrant, higher-order integrase multimerization in a dose-dependent manner in vitro. Consistent with these observations, alterations of the cellular levels of LEDGF/p75 markedly affected BI/D EC50 values during the early steps of HIV-1 replication. Furthermore, genome-wide sequencing of HIV-1 integration sites in infected cells demonstrate that LEDGF/p75-dependent integration site selection is adversely affected by BI/D treatment. Taken together, our studies elucidate structural and mechanistic details of the interplay between LEDGF/p75 and BI/D during the early stage of HIV-1 replication.


Assuntos
Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções por HIV/metabolismo , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Replicação Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Células HEK293 , Infecções por HIV/virologia , HIV-1/fisiologia , Humanos
13.
Methods Mol Biol ; 1354: 149-64, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26714710

RESUMO

HIV-1 integrase (IN) is an important therapeutic target as its function is essential for the viral lifecycle. The discovery of multifunctional allosteric IN inhibitors or ALLINIs, which potently impair viral replication by promoting aberrant, higher order IN multimerization as well as inhibit IN interactions with its cellular cofactor, LEDGF/p75, has opened new venues to exploit IN multimerization as a therapeutic target. Furthermore, the recent discovery of multimerization selective IN inhibitors or MINIs, has provided new investigational probes to study the direct effects of aberrant IN multimerization in vitro and in infected cells. Here we describe three complementary methods designed to detect and quantify the effects of these new classes of inhibitors on IN multimerization. These methods include a homogenous time-resolved fluorescence-based assay which allows for measuring EC50 values for the inhibitor-induced aberrant IN multimerization, a dynamic light scattering-based assay which allows for monitoring the formation and sizes of oligomeric IN particles in a time-dependent manner, and a chemical cross-linking-based assay of interacting IN subunits which allows for the determination of IN oligomers in viral particles.


Assuntos
Infecções por HIV/virologia , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Vírion/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Animais , Reagentes de Ligações Cruzadas/química , Difusão Dinâmica da Luz/métodos , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Integrase de HIV/química , HIV-1/química , HIV-1/metabolismo , Humanos , Immunoblotting/métodos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana/métodos , Espectrometria de Fluorescência/métodos , Vírion/química , Vírion/metabolismo
14.
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol ; 389: 93-119, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25778682

RESUMO

Multimeric HIV-1 integrase (IN) plays an essential, multifunctional role in virus replication and serves as an important therapeutic target. Structural and biochemical studies have revealed the importance of the ordered interplay between IN molecules for its function. In the presence of viral DNA ends, individual IN subunits assemble into a tetramer and form a stable synaptic complex (SSC), which mediates integration of the reverse transcribed HIV-1 genome into chromatin. Cellular chromatin-associated protein LEDGF/p75 engages the IN tetramer in the SSC and directs HIV-1 integration into active genes. A mechanism to deregulate the productive interplay between IN subunits with small molecule inhibitors has recently received considerable attention. Most notably, allosteric IN inhibitors (ALLINIs) have been shown to bind to the IN dimer interface at the LEDGF/p75 binding pocket, stabilize interacting IN subunits, and promote aberrant, higher order IN multimerization. Consequently, these compounds impair formation of the SSC and associated LEDGF/p75-independent IN catalytic activities as well as inhibit LEDGF/p75 binding to the SSC in vitro. However, in infected cells, ALLINIs more potently impaired correct maturation of virus particles than the integration step. ALLINI treatments induced aberrant, higher order IN multimerization in virions and resulted in eccentric, non-infectious virus particles. These studies have suggested that the correctly ordered IN structure is important for virus particle morphogenesis and highlighted IN multimerization as a plausible therapeutic target for developing new inhibitors to enhance treatment options for HIV-1-infected patients.


Assuntos
Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida/tratamento farmacológico , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/uso terapêutico , Integrase de HIV/fisiologia , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Integrase de HIV/química , Humanos , Subunidades Proteicas
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Retrovirology ; 11: 100, 2014 Nov 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25421939

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors (ALLINIs) are an important new class of anti-HIV-1 agents. ALLINIs bind at the IN catalytic core domain (CCD) dimer interface occupying the principal binding pocket of its cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75. Consequently, ALLINIs inhibit HIV-1 IN interaction with LEDGF/p75 as well as promote aberrant IN multimerization. Selection of viral strains emerging under the inhibitor pressure has revealed mutations at the IN dimer interface near the inhibitor binding site. RESULTS: We have investigated the effects of one of the most prevalent substitutions, H171T IN, selected under increasing pressure of ALLINI BI-D. Virus containing the H171T IN substitution exhibited an ~68-fold resistance to BI-D treatment in infected cells. These results correlated with ~84-fold reduced affinity for BI-D binding to recombinant H171T IN CCD protein compared to its wild type (WT) counterpart. However, the H171T IN substitution only modestly affected IN-LEDGF/p75 binding and allowed HIV-1 containing this substitution to replicate at near WT levels. The x-ray crystal structures of BI-D binding to WT and H171T IN CCD dimers coupled with binding free energy calculations revealed the importance of the Nδ- protonated imidazole group of His171 for hydrogen bonding to the BI-D tert-butoxy ether oxygen and establishing electrostatic interactions with the inhibitor carboxylic acid, whereas these interactions were compromised upon substitution to Thr171. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings reveal a distinct mechanism of resistance for the H171T IN mutation to ALLINI BI-D and indicate a previously undescribed role of the His171 side chain for binding the inhibitor.


Assuntos
Acetatos/metabolismo , Farmacorresistência Viral , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , HIV-1/enzimologia , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto , Quinolinas/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular , Cristalografia por Raios X , Integrase de HIV/química , Integrase de HIV/genética , Histidina/genética , Histidina/metabolismo , Humanos , Modelos Moleculares , Proteínas Mutantes/química , Proteínas Mutantes/genética , Proteínas Mutantes/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica
16.
J Biol Chem ; 289(38): 26430-26440, 2014 Sep 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25118283

RESUMO

Allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors (ALLINIs) are a promising class of antiretroviral agents for clinical development. Although ALLINIs promote aberrant IN multimerization and inhibit IN interaction with its cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75 with comparable potencies in vitro, their primary mechanism of action in infected cells is through inducing aberrant multimerization of IN. Crystal structures have shown that ALLINIs bind at the IN catalytic core domain dimer interface and bridge two interacting subunits. However, how these interactions promote higher-order protein multimerization is not clear. Here, we used mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting to monitor surface topology changes in full-length WT and the drug-resistant A128T mutant INs in the presence of ALLINI-2. These experiments have identified protein-protein interactions that extend beyond the direct inhibitor binding site and which lead to aberrant multimerization of WT but not A128T IN. Specifically, we demonstrate that C-terminal residues Lys-264 and Lys-266 play an important role in the inhibitor induced aberrant multimerization of the WT protein. Our findings provide structural clues for exploiting IN multimerization as a new, attractive therapeutic target and are expected to facilitate development of improved inhibitors.


Assuntos
Acetatos/química , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , Integrase de HIV/química , Indóis/química , Regulação Alostérica , Farmacorresistência Viral , Integrase de HIV/genética , HIV-1/enzimologia , Humanos , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto , Ligação Proteica , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos
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PLoS Pathog ; 10(5): e1004171, 2014 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24874515

RESUMO

The quinoline-based allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors (ALLINIs) are promising candidates for clinically useful antiviral agents. Studies using these compounds have highlighted the role of IN in both early and late stages of virus replication. However, dissecting the exact mechanism of action of the quinoline-based ALLINIs has been complicated by the multifunctional nature of these inhibitors because they both inhibit IN binding with its cofactor LEDGF/p75 and promote aberrant IN multimerization with similar potencies in vitro. Here we report design of small molecules that allowed us to probe the role of HIV-1 IN multimerization independently from IN-LEDGF/p75 interactions in infected cells. We altered the rigid quinoline moiety in ALLINIs and designed pyridine-based molecules with a rotatable single bond to allow these compounds to bridge between interacting IN subunits optimally and promote oligomerization. The most potent pyridine-based inhibitor, KF116, potently (EC50 of 0.024 µM) blocked HIV-1 replication by inducing aberrant IN multimerization in virus particles, whereas it was not effective when added to target cells. Furthermore, KF116 inhibited the HIV-1 IN variant with the A128T substitution, which confers resistance to the majority of quinoline-based ALLINIs. A genome-wide HIV-1 integration site analysis demonstrated that addition of KF116 to target or producer cells did not affect LEDGF/p75-dependent HIV-1 integration in host chromosomes, indicating that this compound is not detectably inhibiting IN-LEDGF/p75 binding. These findings delineate the significance of correctly ordered IN structure for HIV-1 particle morphogenesis and demonstrate feasibility of exploiting IN multimerization as a therapeutic target. Furthermore, pyridine-based compounds present a novel class of multimerization selective IN inhibitors as investigational probes for HIV-1 molecular biology.


Assuntos
Antivirais/farmacologia , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/farmacologia , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Integração Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Linhagem Celular , HIV-1/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Ligação Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Quinolinas/farmacologia , Replicação Viral/efeitos dos fármacos
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 110(29): 12036-41, 2013 Jul 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23818621

RESUMO

The selection of chromosomal targets for retroviral integration varies markedly, tracking with the genus of the retrovirus, suggestive of targeting by binding to cellular factors. γ-Retroviral murine leukemia virus (MLV) DNA integration into the host genome is favored at transcription start sites, but the underlying mechanism for this preference is unknown. Here, we have identified bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) proteins (Brd2, -3, -4) as cellular-binding partners of MLV integrase. We show that purified recombinant Brd4(1-720) binds with high affinity to MLV integrase and stimulates correct concerted integration in vitro. JQ-1, a small molecule that selectively inhibits interactions of BET proteins with modified histone sites impaired MLV but not HIV-1 integration in infected cells. Comparison of the distribution of BET protein-binding sites analyzed using ChIP-Seq data and MLV-integration sites revealed significant positive correlations. Antagonism of BET proteins, via JQ-1 treatment or RNA interference, reduced MLV-integration frequencies at transcription start sites. These findings elucidate the importance of BET proteins for MLV integration efficiency and targeting and provide a route to developing safer MLV-based vectors for human gene therapy.


Assuntos
Integrases/metabolismo , Vírus da Leucemia Murina/enzimologia , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Sítio de Iniciação de Transcrição/fisiologia , Integração Viral/fisiologia , Animais , Azepinas , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Imunoprecipitação da Cromatina , Células HEK293 , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno , Humanos , Espectrometria de Massas , Camundongos , Células NIH 3T3 , Proteínas Nucleares/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Proteômica/métodos , Interferência de RNA , Fatores de Transcrição/antagonistas & inibidores , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Triazóis , Integração Viral/genética
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Curr Opin Chem Biol ; 17(3): 339-45, 2013 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23647983

RESUMO

HIV-1 integrase is an important therapeutic target in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs), which target the enzyme active site, have witnessed clinical success over the past 5 years, but the generation of drug resistance poses challenges to INSTI-based therapies moving forward. Integrase is a dynamic protein, and its ordered multimerization is critical to enzyme activity. The integrase tetramer, bound to viral DNA, interacts with host LEDGF/p75 protein to tether integration to active genes. Allosteric integrase inhibitors (ALLINIs) that compete with LEDGF/p75 for binding to integrase disrupt integrase assembly with viral DNA and allosterically inhibit enzyme function. ALLINIs display steep dose response curves and synergize with INSTIs ex vivo, highlighting this novel inhibitor class for clinical development.


Assuntos
Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/química , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/enzimologia , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Domínio Catalítico , Citoplasma/virologia , Humanos
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J Biol Chem ; 288(22): 15813-20, 2013 May 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23615903

RESUMO

Allosteric HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors (ALLINIs) are a very promising new class of anti-HIV-1 agents that exhibit a multimodal mechanism of action by allosterically modulating IN multimerization and interfering with IN-lens epithelium-derived growth factor (LEDGF)/p75 binding. Selection of viral strains under ALLINI pressure has revealed an A128T substitution in HIV-1 IN as a primary mechanism of resistance. Here, we elucidated the structural and mechanistic basis for this resistance. The A128T substitution did not affect the hydrogen bonding between ALLINI and IN that mimics the IN-LEDGF/p75 interaction but instead altered the positioning of the inhibitor at the IN dimer interface. Consequently, the A128T substitution had only a minor effect on the ALLINI IC50 values for IN-LEDGF/p75 binding. Instead, ALLINIs markedly altered the multimerization of IN by promoting aberrant higher order WT (but not A128T) IN oligomers. Accordingly, WT IN catalytic activities and HIV-1 replication were potently inhibited by ALLINIs, whereas the A128T substitution in IN resulted in significant resistance to the inhibitors both in vitro and in cell culture assays. The differential multimerization of WT and A128T INs induced by ALLINIs correlated with the differences in infectivity of HIV-1 progeny virions. We conclude that ALLINIs primarily target IN multimerization rather than IN-LEDGF/p75 binding. Our findings provide the structural foundations for developing improved ALLINIs with increased potency and decreased potential to select for drug resistance.


Assuntos
Farmacorresistência Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/farmacologia , Integrase de HIV/metabolismo , HIV-1/fisiologia , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto , Multimerização Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Replicação Viral/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Alostérica/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação Alostérica/genética , Substituição de Aminoácidos , Células HEK293 , Integrase de HIV/química , Integrase de HIV/genética , Inibidores de Integrase de HIV/química , HIV-1/química , Células HeLa , Humanos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/química , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/genética , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica
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