Structure-Activity Correlationship and Strain Specificity of Polyoxometalates in Anti-human Immunodeficiency Virus Activity

Inoue Yoshio

Fujimoto Yasuhiro

Sugiyama Masanori

Yoshida Tetsuya

Yamase Toshihiro

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

The anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) activity of polyoxometalates of representative structural families, such as Keggin, lacunary Keggin, trivacant Keggin, Keggin sandwich, Wells-Dawson and Wells-Dawson sandwich, was determined using two strains of HIV type 1 (HIV-1HTLV-IIIBand HIV-1SF-2H). The compounds were preferably selected to cover both polyoxotungstates and polyoxomolybdates in each structural family. In general, polyoxotungstates of Keggin, lacumary Keggin, trivacant Keggin, Keggin sandwich, Wells-Dawson and Wells-Dawson sandwich structures showed anti-HIV-1HTLV-IIIBactivity, whereas most compounds not included in these structural categories were inactive. Among the compounds with a potent anti-HIV-1HTLV-IIIBactivity, those of Keggin and its closely related structural families (lacunary Keggin, trivacant Keggin and Keggin sandwich) inhibited the cytopathogenicity and syncytium formation caused by HIV-1SF-2Hto a much higher extent compared with HIV-1HTLV-IIIB-related ones. The difference between the spectra of anti-HIV-1HTLV-IIIBactivity and the specificity for HIV-1SF-2Hmight result from differential structural requirements in these functions.

polyoxometalate

human immunodeficiency virus

strain specificity

syncytium formation

cytopathogenicity

Medical sciences [ 490 ]

eng

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

© 1995 Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

[ISSN] 0918-6158

[ISSN] 1347-5215

[NCID] AA10885497

[DOI] 10.1248/bpb.18.996

[DOI] https://doi.org/10.1248/bpb.18.996