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Figure 2. Stereoview of the X-ray structure of inhibitor 3c (green)-bound HIV-1 protease (PDB code: 4DFG). All strong hydrogen bonding interactions are shown as dotted
lines.
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complex was determined at a 1.23 Å resolution. Inhibitor 3c made
complex network of hydrogen-bonding interactions created by
the N-methyl carbamate substituent in addition to those created
by the isostere in the protease active site may account for the
impressive antiviral activity and superb resistance profile observed
with inhibitor 3c. Further designs along this line and ligand optimi-
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Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the National Institutes of
Health (Grant GM53386 to A.K.G. and Grant GM62920 to I.T.W.).
This work was also supported by the Intramural Research Program
of the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Na-
tional Institutes of Health, and in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scien-
tific Research (Priority Areas) from the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (Monbu Kagaku-
sho), a Grant for Promotion of AIDS Research from the Ministry of
Health, Welfare, and Labor of Japan, and the Grant to the Coopera-
tive Research Project on Clinical and Epidemiological Studies of
Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (Renkei Jigyo) of
Monbu-Kagakusho.
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15. The protein-ligand X-ray structure of 3c-bound HIV-1 protease will be
deposited in PDB (PDB ID: 4DFG). The HIV-1 protease was expressed and
purified as previously described.16 The protease–inhibitor complex was
crystallized at room temperature by the hanging drop vapor diffusion
method with well solutions of 1.2 M ammonium chloride and 0.1 M sodium
acetate buffer (pH 4.8). Diffraction data were collected on a single crystal
cooled to 90 K at SER-CAT BM beamline 22, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne
National Laboratory (Chicago, IL, U.S.), with an X-ray wavelength of 1.0 Å and
processed by HKL-2000 with Rmerge of 7.2%. The PR structure was used in
molecular replacement by PHASER17 in the CCP4i suite18 and refined to 1.45 Å
resolution using SHELX-97 and COOT19 for manual modification. PRODRG-220
was used to construct the inhibitor and the restraints for refinement.
Alternative conformations were modeled, anisotropic atomic displacement
parameters (B factors) were applied for all atoms including solvent molecules,
and hydrogen atoms were added in the final round of refinement. The final
refined solvent structure comprised two Clꢂ ions and 142 water molecules.
16. Mahalingam, B.; Louis, J. M.; Hung, J.; Harrison, R. W.; Weber, I. T. Proteins
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