Design and Development of Highly Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors with a Crown-Like Oxotricyclic Core as the P2-Ligand To Combat Multidrug-Resistant HIV Variants.
Ghosh, A.K., Rao, K.V., Nyalapatla, P.R., Osswald, H.L., Martyr, C.D., Aoki, M., Hayashi, H., Agniswamy, J., Wang, Y.F., Bulut, H., Das, D., Weber, I.T., Mitsuya, H.(2017) J Med Chem 60: 4267-4278
- PubMed: 28418652 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00172
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5ULT - PubMed Abstract: 
Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a new class of exceptionally potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors are reported. Inhibitor 5 displayed superior antiviral activity and drug-resistance profiles. In fact, this inhibitor showed several orders of magnitude improved antiviral activity over the FDA approved drug darunavir. This inhibitor incorporates an unprecedented 6-5-5 ring-fused crown-like tetrahydropyranofuran as the P2 ligand and an aminobenzothiazole as the P2' ligand with the (R)-hydroxyethylsulfonamide isostere. The crown-like P2 ligand for this inhibitor has been synthesized efficiently in an optically active form using a chiral Diels-Alder catalyst providing a key intermediate in high enantiomeric purity. Two high resolution X-ray structures of inhibitor-bound HIV-1 protease revealed extensive interactions with the backbone atoms of HIV-1 protease and provided molecular insight into the binding properties of these new inhibitors.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Chemistry and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University , 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States.