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ArticleBiomacromolecules2012

Polyvalent side chain peptide-synthetic polymer conjugates as HIV-1 entry inhibitors.

Maarten Danial, Michael J Root, Harm-Anton Klok

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Article in Biomacromolecules, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Responsive Hybrid (Poly)peptide-Polymer Conjugates.Journal of materials chemistry. B · 2017
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  6. Designing multivalent probes for tunable superselective targeting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  7. Review
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  9. Superselective targeting using multivalent polymers.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maarten DanialInstitut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Bâtiment MXD, Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Michael J Root
Harm-Anton Klok
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHThomas Jefferson University · US

Funding

MECHANISMS OF HIV-1 MEMBRANE FUSIONR01GM066682 · NIGMS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI ROOT, MICHAEL JEFFREY · 2002 to 2019
$3.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM066682NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM66682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report describes the synthesis and properties of a series of polyvalent side chain peptide-synthetic polymer conjugates designed to block the CD4 binding site on gp120 and inhibit HIV-1 entry into a host cell. The peptide sequences in the conjugates are based on the CDR H3 region of the neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibody IgG1 b12. Using a consecutive ester-amide/thiol-ene postpolymerization modification strategy, a library of polymer conjugates was prepared. Evaluation of the HIV-1 inhibitory properties revealed that midsized polymer conjugates displayed the highest antiviral activity, while shorter and longer conjugates proved to be less efficacious inhibitors. The lower molecular weight conjugates may not have sufficient length to span the distance between two neighboring gp120 containing spikes, while the higher molecular weight conjugates may be compromised due to a higher entropic penalty that would accompany their binding to the viral envelope. Although the IC(50) values for these polymer conjugates are higher than that of the parent IgG1 b12 antibody, the strategy presented here may represent an interesting antiviral approach due to the attractive properties of such polymer therapeutics (relatively inexpensive production and purification costs, high thermal and chemical stability in storage conditions, long half-life in biological tissues, low immunogenicity, and protection from proteolytic degradation).

Indexed as

Anti-HIV AgentsCD4 AntigensHIV-1HIV Envelope Protein gp120HIV Fusion InhibitorsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMolecular StructurePeptidesPolymersAnti-HIV AgentsCD4 Antigensgp120 protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1HIV Envelope Protein gp120HIV Fusion InhibitorsPeptidesPolymers

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PMID22455441
PMCPMC3468941
OpenAlexW2060313915

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