Current Drug Design of Anti-HIV Agents Through the Inhibition of C-C Chemokine Receptor Type 5

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Alejandro Speck Planche (Author) Other; Maria Natalia D S Dias Soeiro Cordeiro (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Current Computer-Aided Drug Design

Vol. 7

Pages: 238-248

ISSN: 1573-4099

Publisher: Bentham

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 12 Citations

Scopus - 13 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-J3X

Abstract (EN): Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the responsible causal agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, allowing the entry of opportunistic infections. HIV infection in humans is considered pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). HIV needs to use a protein as a co-receptor to enter its target cells. Several chemokine receptors can in principle act as viral co-receptors, but the chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 5 (CCR5) is likely the most physiologically important co-receptor during natural infection. For this reason the development of new CCR5 inhibitors like anti-HIV agents, constitutes a challenge for the scientific community. The present review will focus on the current state of the design of novel anti-HIV drugs, and how the existing computer aided-drug design methodologies, have been effective in the search of new anti-HIV agents. In addition, a QSAR model based on substructural descirptors is presented as a rapid, rational and promising alternative for the discovery of anti-HIV agents through the inhibition of the CCR5.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11