A novel imidazole nucleoside containing a diaminodihydro-S-triazine as a substituent: inhibitory activity against the West Nile virus NTPase/helicase.

Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids

Laboratory for Drug Design and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA.

Published: March 2006

The attempted synthesis of a ring-expanded guanosine (1) containing the imidazo[4,5-e][1,3]diazepine ring system by condensation of 1-(2'-deoxy-beta-D-erythropentofuranosyl)-4-ethoxycarbonylimidazole-5-carbaldehyde (2) with guanidine resulted in the formation of an unexpected product, 1-(2'-deoxy-beta-D-erythropentofuranosyl)-5-(2, 4-diamino-3, 6-dihydro-1,3, 5-triazin-6-yl)imidazole-4-carboxamide (7). The structure as well as the pathway of formation of 7 was corroborated by isolation of the intermediate, followed by its conversion to the product. Nucleoside 7 showed promising in vitro anti-helicase activity against the West Nile virus NTPase/helicase with an IC50 of 3-10 microg/mL.

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