Effect of intercalator and Lewis acid-base branched peptide complex formation: boosting affinity towards HIV-1 RRE RNA

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2016-06-06Author
Wynn, Jessica E.
Zhang, Wenyu
Tebit, Denis M.
Gray, Laurie R.
Hammarskjold, Marie-Louise
Rekosh, David
Santos, Webster L.
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High throughput screening of a 4096 compound library of boronic acid and acridine containing branched peptides revealed compounds that have dissociation constants in the low nanomolar regime for HIV-1 RRE IIB RNA. We demonstrate that branched peptide boronic acids A5, A6, and A7 inhibit the production of p24, an HIV-1 capsid protein, in a dose-dependent manner.