ArticleACS chemical biology2021
Inhibiting HTLV-1 Protease: A Viable Antiviral Target.
Article in ACS chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- The challenge of HTLV-1 therapeutics: lessons from anti-protease approaches.New microbes and new infections · 2026Review
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- Dolutegravir use is related to lower HTLV-1 proviral load in people co-infected by HIV-1.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- The Human T-cell Leukemia Virus capsid protein is a potential drug target.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Discovery of Galangin Derivatives as a Potential T-cell Leukemia Virus 1 Protease Inhibitor Through Chemoinformatics Approaches.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2025Article
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- Cell Culture Evaluation Hints Widely Available HIV Drugs Are Primed for Success if Repurposed for HTLV-1 Prevention.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- HIV-1 protease inhibitors with a P1 phosphonate modification maintain potency against drug-resistant variants by increased interactions with flap residues.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2023Article
- Recent Updates on Viral Oncogenesis: Available Preventive and Therapeutic Entities.Molecular pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Multitargeted anti-infective drugs: resilience to resistance in the antimicrobial resistance era.Future drug discovery · 2022Review
- HTLV-1 Transmission and HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Kinetics of Bovine leukemia virus aspartic protease reveals its dimerization and conformational change.PloS one · 2022Article
- Viral proteases: Structure, mechanism and inhibition.The Enzymes · 2021Article
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Abstract
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that can cause severe paralytic neurologic disease and immune disorders as well as cancer. An estimated 20 million people worldwide are infected with HTLV-1, with prevalence reaching 30% in some parts of the world. In stark contrast to HIV-1, no direct acting antivirals (DAAs) exist against HTLV-1. The aspartyl protease of HTLV-1 is a dimer similar to that of HIV-1 and processes the viral polyprotein to permit viral maturation. We report that the FDA-approved HIV-1 protease inhibitor darunavir (DRV) inhibits the enzyme with 0.8 μM potency and provides a scaffold for drug design against HTLV-1. Analogs of DRV that we designed and synthesized achieved submicromolar inhibition against HTLV-1 protease and inhibited Gag processing in viral maturation assays and in a chronically HTLV-1 infected cell line. Cocrystal structures of these inhibitors with HTLV-1 protease highlight opportunities for future inhibitor design. Our results show promise toward developing highly potent HTLV-1 protease inhibitors as therapeutic agents against HTLV-1 infections.
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