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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Bis-3-Chloropiperidines Targeting TAR RNA as A Novel Strategy to Impair the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein.

Alice Sosic, Giulia Olivato, Caterina Carraro, Richard Göttlich, Dan Fabris, Barbara Gatto

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Alice SosicDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Via Francesco Marzolo 5, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1070-1869
Giulia OlivatoDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Via Francesco Marzolo 5, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Caterina CarraroDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Via Francesco Marzolo 5, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Richard GöttlichInstitute of Organic Chemistry, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, 35392 Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1424-3084
Dan FabrisDepartments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences, University at Albany-SUNY, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
Barbara GattoDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Via Francesco Marzolo 5, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9465-6913
University of Padua · ITJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DEUniversity at Albany, State University of New York · US

Funding

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 751931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Specific RNA sequences regulate functions essential to life. The Trans-Activation Response element (TAR) is an RNA stem-bulge-loop structure involved in several steps of HIV-1 replication. In this work, we show how RNA targeting can inhibit HIV-1 nucleocapsid (NC), a highly conserved protein known to catalyze nucleic acid melting and strand transfers during reverse transcription. Our RNA targeting strategy consists of the employment of bis-3-chloropiperidines (B-CePs) to impair RNA melting through bifunctional alkylation. Specific interactions between B-CePs and TAR RNA were analytically investigated by gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry, allowing the elucidation of B-CePs' recognition of TAR, and highlighting an RNA-directed mechanism of protein inhibition. We propose that B-CePs can freeze TAR tridimensional conformation, impairing NC-induced dynamics and finally inhibiting its functions in vitro.

Indexed as

HIV Long Terminal RepeatBinding SitesGene ExpressionHIV-1Nucleic Acid ConformationNucleocapsid ProteinsPiperidinesRNA, Viralbis-3-chloropiperidineNucleocapsid ProteinsPiperidinesRNA, Viralalkylating agentsbis-3-chloropiperidinesTAR-RNA

Identifiers

PMID33810333
PMCPMC8038054
OpenAlexW3150539049

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