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We have determined the structures of four complexes of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with non-nucleoside inhibitors, three fully refined at high resolution. The highest resolution structure is of the RT-nevirapine complex which has an R-factor of 0.186 and a root-mean-square bond length deviation of 0.015 A for all data to 2.2 A. The structures reveal a common mode of binding for these chemically diverse compounds. The common features of binding are largely hydrophobic interactions and arise from induced shape complementarity achieved by conformational rearrangement of the enzyme and conformational/configurational rearrangement of the compounds.

Original publication

DOI

10.1038/nsb0495-293

Type

Journal article

Journal

Nature structural biology

Publication Date

04/1995

Volume

2

Pages

293 - 302

Addresses

Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford, UK.

Keywords

HIV-1, Pyridines, Nevirapine, RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase, Recombinant Proteins, Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, Antiviral Agents, Crystallography, X-Ray, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Binding Sites, Amino Acid Sequence, Protein Conformation, Protein Structure, Secondary, Drug Design, Point Mutation, Models, Molecular, Computer Graphics, Molecular Sequence Data, HIV Reverse Transcriptase