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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 2145-2150Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04046a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81373266, 81573266, 81361120378, 81373456]
- National Science and Technology Major Project of China [2012ZX09301003]
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Sequestering peptides derived from the N-terminal heptad repeat (NHR) of class I viral fusion proteins into a non-aggregating trimeric coiled-coil conformation remains a major challenge. Here, we implemented a synthetic strategy to stabilize NHR-helical trimers, with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gp41 fusion protein as the initial focus. A set of trimeric scaffolds was realized in a synthetic gp41 NHR-derived peptide sequence by relying on the tractability of coiled-coil structures and an additional isopeptide bridge-tethering strategy. Among them, (N36M)(3) folded as a highly stable helical trimer and exhibited promising inhibitory activity against HIV-1 infection, exceptional resistance to proteolysis, and effective native ligand-binding capability. We anticipate that the trimeric coiled-coil recapitulation methodology described herein may have broader applicability to yield NHR trimers of other class I enveloped viruses and to prepare helical tertiary structure mimetics of certain natural protein-protein interactions for biomedical applications.
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