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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
卷 56, 期 11, 页码 4300-4319出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jm301910a
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2010CB12300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81101239, 20932001, 91029711, 20852001]
Development of hepatitis C virus (HCV) entry inhibitors represents an emerging approach that satisfies a tandem mechanism for use with other inhibitors in a multifaceted cocktail. By screening Chinese herbal extracts, oleanolic acid (OA) was found to display weak potency to inhibit HCV entry with an IC50 of 10 mu M. Chemical exploration of this triterpene compound revealed its pharmacophore requirement for blocking HCV entry, rings A, B, and E, are conserved while ring D is tolerant of some modifications. Hydroxylation at C-16 significantly enhanced its potency for inhibiting HCV entry with IC50 at 1.4 mu M. Further modification by conjugation of this new lead with a disaccharide at 28-COOH removed the undesired hemolytic effect and, more importantly, increased its potency by similar to 5-fold (54a, IC50 0.3 mu M). Formation of a triterpene dimer via a linker bearing triazole (70) dramatically increased its potency with IC50 at similar to 10 nM. Mechanistically, such functional triterpenes interrupt the interaction between HCV envelope protein E2 and its receptor CD81 via binding to E2, thus blocking virus and host cell recognition. This study establishes the importance of triterpene natural products as new leads for the development of potential HCV entry inhibitors.
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