5CMU

Artificial HIV fusion inhibitor AP1 fused to the C-terminus of gp41 NHR


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 2.11 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.244 
  • R-Value Work: 0.211 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.215 

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Literature

Improved Pharmacological and Structural Properties of HIV Fusion Inhibitor AP3 over Enfuvirtide: Highlighting Advantages of Artificial Peptide Strategy.

Zhu, X.Zhu, Y.Ye, S.Wang, Q.Xu, W.Su, S.Sun, Z.Yu, F.Liu, Q.Wang, C.Zhang, T.Zhang, Z.Zhang, X.Xu, J.Du, L.Liu, K.Lu, L.Zhang, R.Jiang, S.

(2015) Sci Rep 5: 13028-13028

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13028
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    5CMU, 5CMZ, 5CN0

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Enfuvirtide (T20), is the first HIV fusion inhibitor approved for treatment of HIV/AIDS patients who fail to respond to the current antiretroviral drugs. However, its clinical application is limited because of short half-life, drug resistance and cross-reactivity with the preexisting antibodies in HIV-infected patients. Using an artificial peptide strategy, we designed a peptide with non-native protein sequence, AP3, which exhibited potent antiviral activity against a broad spectrum of HIV-1 strains, including those resistant to T20, and had remarkably longer in vivo half-life than T20. While the preexisting antibodies in HIV-infected patients significantly suppressed T20's antiviral activity, these antibodies neither recognized AP3, nor attenuated its anti-HIV-1 activity. Structurally different from T20, AP3 could fold into single-helix and interact with gp41 NHR. The two residues, Met and Thr, at the N-terminus of AP3 form a hook-like structure to stabilize interaction between AP3 and NHR helices. Therefore, AP3 has potential for further development as a new HIV fusion inhibitor with improved antiviral efficacy, resistance profile and pharmacological properties over enfuvirtide. Meanwhile, this study highlighted the advantages of artificially designed peptides, and confirmed that this strategy could be used in developing artificial peptide-based viral fusion inhibitors against HIV and other enveloped viruses.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministries of Education and Health, Shanghai Medical College and Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Envelope glycoprotein,AP1
A, B, C
73Human immunodeficiency virus 1synthetic construct
This entity is chimeric
Mutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: env
UniProt
Find proteins for P04578 (Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group M subtype B (isolate HXB2))
Explore P04578 
Go to UniProtKB:  P04578
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UniProt GroupP04578
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 2.11 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.244 
  • R-Value Work: 0.211 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.215 
  • Space Group: P 1 21 1
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 36.617α = 90
b = 58.811β = 93.97
c = 51.439γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
PHENIXrefinement
HKL-2000data reduction
HKL-2000data scaling
PHASERphasing

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

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Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2015-09-16
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2024-03-20
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations