A. Asagarasu et al., SYNTHESES OF HIV-PROTEASE INHIBITORS HAVING A PEPTIDE MOIETY WHICH BINDS TO GP120, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 46(4), 1998, pp. 697-703
Some HIV-protease inhibitor derivatives having an N-carbomethoxycarbon
yl-prolyl-phenylalanine benzyl ester (CPF) moiety as a binding site to
gp120 were designed and synthesized. Almost all the compounds bearing
CPF on the phenoxyacetyl group showed protease-inhibitory activity. C
ompounds 25a and 25b, which have the CPF moiety at the ortho- and meta
-positions of the phenoxyacetyl group, respectively, had anti-HIV acti
vity, although the others showed only protease-inhibitory activity. Th
ese results suggest that 25b binds to gp120 and inhibits HIV protease.