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ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages 137-144Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2012.11.008
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WNV protease; Peptide inhibitors; NMR study; Induced fit
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West Nile virus (WNV) NS2B-NS3 protease is an important drug target since it is an essential protein for the replication of the virus. In order to determine the minimum pharmacophore for protease inhibition, a series of dipeptide aldehydes were synthesized. The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) measurements revealed that a simple acetyl-KR-aldehyde was only threefold less active than 4-phenyl-phenylacetyl-KKR-aldehyde (1) (Stoermer et al., 2008) that was used as the reference compound. The ligand efficiency of 0.40 kcal/mol/HA (HA = heavy atom) for acetyl-KR-aldehyde is much improved compared to the reference compound 1 (0.23 kcal/mol/HA). The binding of the inhibitors was examined using H-1-N-15-HSQC experiments and differential chemical shifts were used to map the ligand binding sites. The biophysical studies show that the conformational mobility of WNV protease has a major impact on the design of novel inhibitors, since the protein conformation changes profoundly depending on the structure of the bound ligand. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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