Figure 7.
(A) Structures of HIV-1 LTR-III (top; PDB: 6H1K)38 and LTR-IV (bottom; PDB: 2N4Y)50 G4s as determined by NMR. The structures are coloured in a rainbow pattern from the 5′ terminus (blue) to the 3′ terminus (red). (B) Computationally predicted most stable poses of 6 and 12 (in sticks) in LTR-III (top row) and LTR-IV (bottom row). G4s are shown as a cartoon, two K+ ions as magenta spheres. The compounds/enantiomers are arranged from left to right: 6/P, 6/M, 12/P, 12/M. MM-GBSA binding free energies are shown in kcal/mol. For the enantiomer 6/M, binding to LTR-IV, the iso-energetic poses are shown to be stacked on the top and bottom of the G-quadruplex.
