Small Molecule Regulation of Protein Conformation by Binding in the Flap of HIV Protease
- Theresa Tiefenbrunn
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- Stefano Forli
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- Michael M. Baksh
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- Max W. Chang
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- Meaghan Happer
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- Ying-Chuan Lin
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- Alexander L. Perryman
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- Jin-Kyu Rhee
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- Bruce E. Torbett
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- Arthur J. Olson
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- John H. Elder
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- M. G. Finn
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- C. David Stout
Abstract

The fragment indole-6-carboxylic acid (1F1), previously identified as a flap site binder in a fragment-based screen against HIV protease (PR), has been cocrystallized with pepstatin-inhibited PR and with apo-PR. Another fragment, 3-indolepropionic acid (1F1-N), predicted by AutoDock calculations and confirmed in a novel inhibition of nucleation crystallization assay, exploits the same interactions in the flap site in two crystal structures. Both 1F1 and 1F1-N bind to the closed form of apo-PR and to pepstatin:PR. In solution, 1F1 and 1F1-N raise the Tm of apo-PR by 3.5–5 °C as assayed by differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) and show equivalent low-micromolar binding constants to both apo-PR and pepstatin:PR, assayed by backscattering interferometry (BSI). The observed signal intensities in BSI are greater for each fragment upon binding to apo-PR than to pepstatin-bound PR, consistent with greater conformational change in the former binding event. Together, these data indicate that fragment binding in the flap site favors a closed conformation of HIV PR.
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