Chromenone derivatives as a versatile scaffold with dual mode of inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase-associated Ribonuclease H function and integrase activity
作者:Francesca Esposito、Francesca Alessandra Ambrosio、Rita Maleddu、Giosuè Costa、Roberta Rocca、Elias Maccioni、Raffaella Catalano、Isabella Romeo、Phaedra Eleftheriou、Denish C. Karia、Petros Tsirides、Nilesh Godvani、Hetal Pandya、Angela Corona、Stefano Alcaro、Anna Artese、Athina Geronikaki、Enzo Tramontano
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.111617
日期:2019.11
A number of compounds targeting different processes of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) life cycle have been developed in the continuing fight against AIDS. Coumarin-based molecules already proved to act as HIV-1 Protease (PR) or Integrase (IN) inhibitors and also to target HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), blocking the DNA-dependent DNA-polymerase activity or the RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase activity working as common NNRTIs. In the present study, with the aim to exploit a coumarin-based scaffold to achieve the inhibition of multiple viral coded enzymatic functions, novel 4-hydroxy-2H, 5H-pyrano (3, 2-c) chromene-2, 5 dione derivatives were synthesized. The modeling studies calculated the theoretical binding affinity of the synthesized compounds on both HIV-1 IN and RT-associated Ribonuclease H (RNase H) active sites, which was confirmed by biological assays. Our results provide a basis for the identification of dual HIV-1 IN and RT RNase H inhibitors compounds. (C) 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.