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A series of pyrimidine nucleoside analogues containing [2',5'-bis-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-3'-spiro-5''-(4''-amino- 1'',2''-oxathiole-2'',2''-dioxide)]-beta-D-ribofuranose as the pentose were found to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 [HIV-1(IIIB)] replication at a concentration of 0.06-0.8 microM but were not cytotoxic at a 1000- to 10,000-fold higher concentration. These nucleoside derivatives were also effective against various other HIV-1 strains, including those resistant to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, but not against HIV-2, simian immunodeficiency virus, Moloney murine sarcoma virus, or other RNA or DNA viruses. They proved to be highly specific inhibitors of the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase function of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, showing no marked inhibition of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase-associated DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity, HIV-2 reverse transcriptase, DNA polymerase alpha, herpes simplex virus 1 DNA polymerase, or Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase.
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PMID:2',5'-Bis-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-3'-spiro-5''-(4''-amino-1'',2''- oxathiole-2'',2'-dioxide)pyrimidine (TSAO) nucleoside analogues: highlyselective inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 that are targeted at the viral reverse transcriptase. 137

The reverse transcriptase (RT) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is the target enzyme for the tetrahydro-imidazo[4,5,1-jk][1,4]- benzodiazepin-2(1H)one and thione (TIBO) derivatives, a class of highly potent and selective anti-HIV agents that specifically inhibit HIV-1 but not HIV-2 replication. The amino acid sequence divergence may be held responsible for the differential sensitivity of HIV-1 RT and HIV-2 RT to the TIBO derivatives. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we have introduced several amino acid substitutions in the conserved regions of HIV-1 RT. Where applicable, the amino acids were replaced by the corresponding amino acids present in HIV-2 RT. The amino acid residues Y181 and Y188 appeared to be critical for the anti-HIV-1 RT activity of the TIBO derivatives, since substitution of these residues by the corresponding HIV-2 amino acids I181 and L188 resulted in a virtual loss of TIBO sensitivity without loss of enzymatic activity.
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PMID:Resistance of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase to TIBO derivatives induced by site-directed mutagenesis. 137 86

A comparison of the fidelity of reverse transcriptases (RT) from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) is made using RNA and DNA primer-template molecules in vitro. Selected template target sites containing either uracil or thymine are used to measure nucleotide insertion fidelities and to compare the efficiency of extending mismatched nucleotides at primer 3'-termini. HIV-1 reverse transcriptase is observed to incorporate as many as three consecutive mismatches and to continue efficient elongation from mismatched primer 3'-termini without discernible pausing. Nucleotide misinsertion and mispair extension efficiencies are similar for both enzymes on RNA and DNA templates having identical surrounding sequence. HIV-1 and AMV reverse transcriptases form G.T and G.U mismatches most efficiently, between 1.6 x 10(-4) and 7 x 10(-4), and both enzymes extend G.U with exceptionally high efficiencies, 2.7 x 10(-2) for HIV-1 RT and 4.5 x 10(-2) for AMV RT. Extension of the G.T mismatch is similar for AMV RT (5.8 x 10(-2) but 20-fold less efficient for HIV-1 RT. C.U and C.T mismatches are formed by both enzymes in a frequency range of 4.4 x 10(-5)-2.4 x 10(-4). HIV-1 RT extends these mismatches with slightly higher efficiencies (5.5 x 10(-3)-5.9 x 10(-3)) than AMV RT (5.6 x 10(-4)-2.1 x 10(-3)). Insertion of dTMP opposite U and T occur at about 1 x 10(-4)-2 x 10(-4) for HIV-1 RT. For AMV RT, formation of T.U mispairs occurs with an 8-fold lower efficiency, whereas insertion of dTMP opposite T is not detected. This particular DNA template sequence generates a pause site for AMV RT but not HIV-1 RT. HIV-1 RT dissociation rate constants are about 8-fold larger from a DNA primer bound to a DNA template (0.5 s-1), as compared with an RNA template (0.06 s-1) at one site, and are at most 2-fold larger at another site. The equilibrium binding constant for HIV-1 RT bound to DNA primed RNA and DNA templates appears to be similar, KD approximately 2.5 nM. Values of kpol from 0.3 to 1.5 nucleotides/s are obtained for HIV-1 RT at the RNA and DNA template sites used to measure insertion and extension fidelity. The relatively high efficiency of mispair extension catalyzed by reverse transcriptases with both RNA and DNA templates suggests that a significant component of retroviral genetic variability may be related to the ability of reverse transcriptases to continue efficient synthesis of DNA containing mismatches on both RNA and DNA templates.
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PMID:Comparison of HIV-1 and avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase fidelity on RNA and DNA templates. 137 33

Dibenz[b,f][1,4]oxazepin-11(10H)-ones (III), pyrido[2,3-b][1,4]benzoxazepin-6(5H)-ones (IV), and pyrido[2,3-b]- [1,5]benzoxazepin-5(6H)-ones (V) were found to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase with IC50 values as low as 19 nM. A-ring substitution has a profound effect on activity, with appropriate substituents at the positions ortho and para to the lactam nitrogen providing dramatically enhanced potency. Substitution in the C-ring is generally neutral or detrimental to activity. Although a C-ring amino substituent at the position meta to the lactam carbonyl is generally beneficial to activity, it has essentially no effect when the A-ring is optimally substituted. Like the dipyridodiazepinone nevirapine, compounds III-V are specific for HIV-1 RT, exhibiting no inhibitory activity against HIV-2 RT or other virial reverse transcriptase enzymes.
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PMID:Novel non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. 2. Tricyclic pyridobenzoxazepinones and dibenzoxazepinones. 137 93

Recently, several classes of compounds have been shown to be potent, selective, and specific inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication in vitro. These include the tetrahydroimidazo[4,5,1-jk][1,4]-benzodiazepin-2(1H)-one and -thione (TIBO) and the 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine (HEPT) derivatives. Both the TIBO and HEPT derivatives specifically inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (RT). From a comparative study of the characteristics of RT inhibition by TIBO and HEPT, and from the competition between TIBO and HEPT for RT inhibition, we infer that both classes of compounds, although structurally unrelated, are targeted at the same site of the enzyme. Detailed functional and kinetic analyses indicate that this target site is functionally and possibly also spatially related to the substrate binding site.
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PMID:Common features in the interaction of tetrahydroimidazo[4,5,1-jk][1,4]benzodiazepin-2(1H)-one and -thione and 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine derivatives with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase. 137 20

Development of a 3-D model of the reverse transcriptase from type 1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1 RT), a key enzyme in the pathogenesis of the virus, presents a significant challenge. Three-dimensional structural information is not available for any close homolog, the only 3-D structural data being that of the Klenow fragment (KF) of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I, for which coordinates of only the alpha-carbons are available. A recently published study of the sequences of a large number of polymerases led to the identification of three common sequence patterns, nominally motif A, motif B and motif C, and to the hypothesis that the various DNA and RNA polymerases including E. coli DNA polymerase I and HIV-1 RT share a common structural motif around their respective polymerase active sites. The preliminary results of recent structural studies on two other polymerases also support this hypothesis. Based on the assumption of structural homology in the active site regions of their polymerase domains, the HIV-1 RT and KF sequences were aligned using pattern-based secondary structure predictions as a guide and motifs A, B and C as 'anchor points'. However, as suggested by the results of chemical modification experiments, it was assumed that the order of the motifs in KF, viz. A, B and C, differed from that of the related motifs A, C and B' in HIV-1 RT, a rearrangement that could have been brought about by an exon shuffling type of mechanism.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:A preliminary 3-D model of the tertiary fold of the polymerase domain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. 137 50

Human-immunodeficiency-virus-type-1 reverse transcriptase exists in virions as a heterodimer of a M(r) 66,000 subunit and its C-terminally truncated form of M(r) 51,000, but, when expressed as a recombinant M(r) 66,000 protein, a mixture of heterodimers and homodimers results which co-purify by most conventional techniques. We describe a method of hydrophobic chromatography which gives baseline separation of these two forms of the protein. This method has been applied to purify heterodimers formed by recombination of separately expressed and purified M(r) 66,000 and 51,000 subunits, resulting in significantly more homogeneous heterodimer preparations. The recombined heterodimer showed similar kinetic properties and RNase H activity to the standard heterodimer and a specific activity significantly higher than the original homodimer of the M(r) 66,000 protein. Heterodimers having greater asymmetry have also been prepared by recombining Mr 66,000 subunits containing single-point or deletion mutations, with wild-type M(r) 51,000 subunits, and the resulting heterodimers analysed.
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PMID:Formation of heterodimers of human-immunodeficiency-virus-type-1 reverse transcriptase by recombination of separately purified subunits. 137 16

Several novel imidotriphosphate analogues of thymidine have been synthesized and have been shown to be effective inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 RT). When the alpha,beta-bridging oxygens of thymidine triphosphate (TTP) and 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine 5'-triphosphate (AZTTP) were replaced by a nitrogen, the resulting analogues were no longer substrates but instead became competitive inhibitors of HIV-1 RT. The most potent of the alpha,beta-imidotriphosphate derivatives tested was thymidine 5'-[alpha,beta-imido]triphosphate (TMPNPP, 1a). This analogue has a Ki value of 2.4 microM, inhibiting HIV-1 RT 400-fold more potently than it inhibits DNA polymerase I large fragment (Klenow). 3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine 5'-[alpha,beta-imido]triphosphate (AZTMPNPP, 1b) gave a Ki value about 10-fold greater than that for TMPNPP, indicating that a 3'-azido substituent decreases the affinity of AZTTP to HIV-1 RT relative to the normal 3'-OH substituent. Dideoxythymidine 5'-[alpha,beta-imido]triphosphate (ddTMPNPP, 1c) was intermediate in potency, giving a Ki value of 15 microM. In contrast, substitution at the beta,gamma-bridging oxygen by nitrogen did not block the enzymatic cleavage of the adjacent alpha,beta-phosphate linkage, and 3'-azidothymidine 5'-[beta,gamma-imido]triphosphate (AZTMPPNP, 1e), the 5'-[beta,gamma-imido]triphosphate analogue of AZTTP, is therefore both a substrate for and a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 RT with an observed Ki value of 87 nM. Further nitrogen substitution of the bridging oxygens in the phosphate chain decreases the inhibitory potency by approximately 10-fold, as in the case of thymidine 5'-[alpha,beta:beta,gamma-diimido]triphosphate (TMPNPNP, 1d).
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PMID:New thymidine triphosphate analogue inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase. 137 62

Recently, tetrahydroimidazo-[4,5,1-jk][1,4]-benzodiazepin-2(1H)-one and -thione (TIBO) and 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine (HEPT) compounds have been shown to be potent, selective, and specific inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication in vitro. They interact with the reverse transcriptase of HIV-1 in a way different from that of previously studied reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors. We established an endogenous RT assay, starting from intact HIV-1 virions. This assay mimics the reverse transcription process in the HIV-infected cell more closely than RT assays with artificial templates. We investigated the inhibition of endogenous HIV-1 reverse transcription by the TIBO derivative (+)-(S)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-5-methyl-6-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)imidazo [4,5,1-jk][1,4]-benzodiazepin-2(1H)-thione (R-82150) in comparison with the HEPT derivative 5-ethyl-1-ethoxymethyl-6-(phenylthio)uracil (E-EPU) and 2',3'-dideoxyguanosine 5'-triphosphate. The kinetics and characteristics of RT inhibition by TIBO in the endogenous RT assay were similar to those found previously for the exogenous RT assay (following addition of exogenous template/primer); thus, RT inhibition by TIBO was specific for HIV-1 and the extent of RT inhibition was dependent on which of the four substrates (dATP, dTTP, dGTP, and dCTP) was present in limited concentrations. Of the three enzymatic activities, RNA-dependent DNA polymerization was preferentially inhibited, and inhibition was not competitive with respect to the natural substrates. HIV-1 RT behaved as an allosteric enzyme, which means that positive cooperativity for binding of the substrate was observed. TIBO behaved as an allosteric inhibitor by causing a concentration-dependent decrease in this cooperativity.
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PMID:Kinetics of inhibition of endogenous human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcription by 2',3'-dideoxynucleoside 5'-triphosphate, tetrahydroimidazo-[4,5,1-jk][1,4]-benzodiazepin-2(1H)-thion e, and 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine derivatives. 137 11

[2',5'-Bis-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-beta-D-ribofuranosyl]-3'-spiro- 5"-(4"-amino-1",2"-oxathiole-2", 2"-dioxide)thymine (TSAO-T) is a representative of a novel class of nucleoside analogues that are endowed with a potent and specific activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 and are targeted at the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). Inhibition of HIV-1 RT by TSAO-T was reversible and noncompetitive with respect to dGTP as the substrate and poly(C).oligo(dG) as the template/primer. In contrast with the nonnucleoside derivatives tetrahydroimidazo-[4,5,1-jk][1,4]- benzodiazepin-2(1H)-thione (TIBO) (R-82150), nevirapine (BI-RG-587) and the HEPT derivative I-HEPU-SdM, TSAO-T was not inhibitory to HIV-1 RT in the presence of other homopolymeric template/primers. It did not interfere with the DNA-dependent DNA polymerase function of HIV-1 RT, HIV-2 RT, herpes simplex virus type 1 DNA polymerase, or Taq polymerase. However, TSAO-T proved inhibitory to the HIV-1 RT reaction primed by Escherichia coli 16S/23S rRNA, irrespective of the nature of the radiolabeled 2'-deoxynucleotide 5'-triphosphate (dNTP) used. TSAO-T does not act as a DNA chain terminator. It interacts with HIV-1 RT at a nonsubstrate (dNTP)-binding site.
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PMID:Kinetics of inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase by the novel HIV-1-specific nucleoside analogue [2',5'-bis-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-beta-D-ribofuranosyl]-3'-spiro-5 "- (4"-amino-1",2"-oxathiole-2",2"-dioxide)thymine (TSAO-T). 137 14


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