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Vipirinin, a coumarin-based HIV-1 Vpr inhibitor, interacts with a hydrophobic region of VPR.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Apr 2011
Ong Eugene Boon Beng, Watanabe Nobumoto, Saito Akiko, Futamura Yushi, Abd El Galil Khaled Hussein, Koito Atsushi, Najimudin Nazalan, Osada Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
The human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) viral protein R (Vpr) is an accessory protein that has been shown to have multiple roles in HIV-1 pathogenesis. By screening chemical libraries in the RIKEN Natural Products Depository, we identified a 3-phenyl coumarin-based compound that inhibited the cell cycle arrest activity of Vpr in yeast and Vpr-dependent viral infection of human macrophages. We determined its...
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