Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (7): 1304.

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Three Dimensional Quantitative Structure-activity Relationship of HEPT Analogues as HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors

MENG Ge, HE Yan-Ping, CHEN Fen-Er   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2001-03-27 Online:2002-07-24 Published:2002-07-24

Abstract: Hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)-thymine(HEPT) and its analogues inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase(RT) selectively. Aseries of HEPTanalogues were analyzed in order to disclose the relationship between their structure and the activity. Thirty two HIV-1RTinhibitors were investigated by means of comparative molecular field analysis(CoMFA). Based upon the active conformation extracted from the HEPT/HIV-1RTcomplex, all the inhibitors were aligned and minimized in energy. Three kinds of CoMFAmodels were established and evaluated. The model(Ⅰ)of steric and electrostatic effects on their activities showed a higher ability to explain and predict the activities of these selective HIV-1 inhibitors than other models, cross-validated RCV2= 0.870, non-cross-validated R2= 0.986, F =294.546, standard error(SE)=0.146. The CoMFAmodel established by examining the steric and electrostatic effect on the structure without considering the effect of π value shows a very high ability to predict the biological activity for testing set compounds and training set compounds and offers an approach to design the new inhibitors. The CoMFAmodel revealed that the suitable length of the 1-side chain is crucial for the antiviral activity. And it also showed that the bulkier group in 5-position and the para-position of the 6-phenylthio group is also benefit for the enhancement of the antiviral activity.

Key words: HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors, HEPT analogues, CoMFA, 3D QSAR

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