Computational development of rubromycin-based lead compounds for HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition
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Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
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REQUIMTE, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
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- Subject Areas
- Biochemistry, Biophysics, Computational Biology
- Keywords
- molecular dynamics, docking, computer-aided drug design
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- © 2014 Silva et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Computational development of rubromycin-based lead compounds for HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e348v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.348v1
Abstract
The binding of several rubromycin-based ligands to HIV1-reverse transcriptase was analyzed using molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations. MM-PBSA analysis and examination of the trajectories allowed the identification of several promising compounds with predicted high affinity towards reverse transcriptase mutants which have proven resistant to current drugs. Important insights on the complex interplay of factors determining the ability of ligands to selectively target each mutant have been obtained.