Rational design of HIV-1 entry inhibitors

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:993:185-204. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-342-8_13.

Abstract

This chapter reviews studies that have used in silico techniques to design or identify potential HIV-1 entry inhibitors targeting cellular receptors CD4, CCR5, and CXCR4 and envelope glycoproteins, gp120 and gp41 of HIV-1. Both structure- and ligand-based design techniques have been used in those studies by applying diverse modeling techniques such as quantitative structure-activity relationship analysis, conformational analysis, molecular dynamics, pharmacophore generation, docking, virtual screening (using docking software and also shape-based ROCS techniques), and fragment-based design.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-HIV Agents / chemistry
  • Anti-HIV Agents / pharmacology*
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Drug Design*
  • HIV-1 / drug effects*
  • HIV-1 / metabolism
  • HIV-1 / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Virus Internalization / drug effects*

Substances

  • Anti-HIV Agents