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Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 3309-3316, Vol. 73, No. 4
Department of Molecular and Medical
Pharmacology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
90095,1 and Department of Pathology and
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine,
California 926972
Received 15 October 1998/Accepted 13 January 1999
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and other retroviruses
require integration of a double-stranded DNA copy of the RNA genome
into the host cell chromosome for productive infection. The viral
enzyme, integrase, catalyzes the integration of retroviral DNA and
represents an attractive target for developing antiretroviral agents.
We identified several derivatives of dicaffeoylquinic acids (DCQAs)
that inhibit HIV-1 replication in tissue culture and catalytic
activities of HIV-1 integrase in vitro. The specific step at which
DCQAs inhibit the integration in vitro and the mechanism of inhibition
were examined in the present study. Titration experiments with
different concentrations of HIV-1 integrase or DNA substrate found that
the effect of DCQAs was exerted on the enzyme and not the DNA. In
addition to HIV-1, DCQAs also inhibited the in vitro activities of MLV
integrase and truncated variants of feline immunodeficiency virus
integrase, suggesting that these compounds interacted with the central
core domain of integrase. The inhibition on retroviral integrases was
relatively specific, and DCQAs had no effect on several other
DNA-modifying enzymes and phosphoryltransferases. Kinetic analysis and
dialysis experiments showed that the inhibition of integrase by DCQAs
was irreversible. The inhibition did not require the presence of a
divalent cation and was unaffected by preassembling integrase onto
viral DNA. The results suggest that the irreversible inhibition by
DCQAs on integrase is directed toward conserved amino acid residues in
the central core domain during catalysis.
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Irreversible Inhibition of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Integrase by Dicaffeoylquinic Acids
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This report is dedicated to the memory of Brian Reese and others
who suffered from and died of AIDS.
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