Characterization of the Antiviral Activity of Highly Substituted Pyrroles: A Novel Class of Non-Nucleoside HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 6 (2) , 98-108
- https://doi.org/10.1177/095632029500600204
Abstract
As a result of mass screening of the Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical compound library for inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, a novel class of inhibitor, the pyrroles, was identified. Subsequently, a series of analogues was screened for inhibitory activity against HIV-1 and some structure-activity relationships were identified. Further characterization of the most potent pyrrole involved comparing its effects in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) with its effects in transformed cell lines; the pyrrole had the same efficacy (EC50 = approximately 2 μM) but was less toxic in PBLs (IC50 = 175 μM) than in the cell lines CEM-SS and MT-2 (IC50 = 60-70 μM). The pyrrole was active against a strain of HIV-1 resistant to AZT (strain G9106) but lost activity against both HIV-2 (strain ROD) and a strain of HIV-1 resistant to a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (the pyridinone-resistant strain A17). Moreover, in direct enzymatic testing against HIV-1 RT purified from virus particles and against RT expressed recombinantly, the pyrrole showed potent inhibitory activity. We conclude that the pyrroles present a novel class of HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.Keywords
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