Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on September 5, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(20):2797-2799; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm424
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Identification of potential HIV-1 targets of minocycline
1National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, 113 Thailand Science Park, Pahonyothin Road, Klong 1, Klongluang, Pathumtani 12120, Thailand and 2Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Summary: Minocycline, a broad spectrum antibiotic, has been discovered to have inhibitory activity against HIV-1 in vitro, but the targets inhibited are unknown. We used a docking with dynamics protocol developed by us to predict the binding affinities of minocycline against seven active sites of five HIV-1 proteins to putatively identify the potential target(s) of minocycline. The results indicate that minocycline has the highest predicted binding affinity against HIV-1 integrase.
Contact: ram{at}compbio.washington.edu
Associate Editor: Dmitrij Frishman
Received on June 5, 2007; revised on July 28, 2007; accepted on August 14, 2007