Publisher： Bentham Science Publishers
E-ISSN： 1875-6638|1|3|263-275
ISSN： 1573-4064
Source： Medicinal Chemistry, Vol.1, Iss.3, 2005-05, pp. : 263-275
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Abstract
Over the past 10 years, classical computer-aided molecular design methods have not been frequently applied for the discovery of novel HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitors, due to the intrinsic challenges that this enzyme presents. Therefore, a novel approach that combines the chemical information of known integrase inhibitors with the enzyme's detailed 3D structure in a stepwise fashion is proposed: (I) use of a pharmacophore model (PM), which takes into account in a weighted fashion the chemical features of known ligands, in analogous manner to the to search the Maybridge and the NCI 3D databases; (II) drug-likeness optimization; (III) virtual high-throughput screening of the hits matching the PM query against 1QS4 wild-type IN structure using different Docking/Scoring combinations; (IV) visual inspection and selection of the hits in function of: binding free energies; binding mode type within the active site; retrieval among the best 20% hits in more than 6 Docking/Scoring protocols at the same time. This approach aims at a rational selection of new potential HIV-1 integrase inhibitors.
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