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The resulting compound, ABT-538 (Table 3), binds to the active site of HIV PR in an extended<br />

conformation. The central, asymmetric hydroxyl group is within hydrogen-bonding distance of the<br />

catalytic aspartates 25/25', and the P1/P1' phenylalanine side chains are symmetrically distributed in the<br />

corresponding subsites. The nitrogens of the symmetric amide bonds on both sides of the central<br />

aminoalcohol are barely within the hydrogen-bonding distance of the carbonyl oxygens of Gly27/27'<br />

(3.4 Å) and the carbonyl oxygens of these amide bonds participate in the tetrahydral coordination of the<br />

flap water molecule Wat301. On the N-terminal side of the compound, the P2 side chain of valine fills<br />

the S2 subsite and the terminal 2-isopropyl-4-thiazolyl makes hydrohobic contacts with the residues in<br />

the S3 pocket and has a stacking interaction with the P1 phenylalanine. On the C-terminal side, the 5thiazole<br />

is positioned to interact within the S2' subsite, and the nitrogen on the 5-membered ring is<br />

within hydrogen-bonding distance of the amide of Asp30'.<br />

Despite two peptide bonds present in ABT-538, this compound has substantial oral availability in<br />

humans and a very high antiviral activity in vivo [30]. Recently, ABT-538, better known as ritonavir,<br />

has been approved <strong>by</strong> the FDA for treatment of AIDS in combination with inhibitors of the reverse<br />

transcriptase.<br />

<strong>Design</strong> and <strong>Structure</strong> of L-735,524 (Indinavir)<br />

Indinavir is another example of very potent peptidomimetic compound discovered using the elements<br />

the crystal structure-<strong>based</strong> design [32] and SAR (structure activity relationship). The starting point for<br />

the design was a series of compounds containing the hydroxyethylene isostere of a scissile dipeptide<br />

[33]. An example of compounds from these series is L-685,434, which consists of a tert-butylcarbamate<br />

group forming the P2 moiety, symmetrically distributed phenylalanine side chains in the P1/P1', and the<br />

indanol group in the P2' portion of the inhibitor. Although very potent, the optimized molecules from<br />

this series lacked aqueous solubility and an acceptable pharmacokinetic profile [32]. The Merck group<br />

hypothesized that incorporation of a basic amine-containing functionality, such as the<br />

decahydroisoquinoline group of saquinavir, into the backbone of L-685,434 series might improve the<br />

solubility and bioavailability of this type of compound. Also the replacement of the P2/P1<br />

functionalities, the tert-butylamide and phenylalanine side chain <strong>by</strong> the decahydroisoquinoline tertbutylamide,<br />

would generate a novel class of hydroxylaminepentanamide isostere with potentially<br />

improved metabolic stability in vivo. An additional strong argument for using decahydroisoquinoline as<br />

an isostere of P1/P2 moieties was the restricted conformational freedom of the enclosed-into-a-ring<br />

basic amine, which should decrease the entropy change upon binding to HIV PR in a similar fashion to<br />

that observed in saquinavir. In<br />

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