activity of these compounds requires phosphorylation to their triphosphate form, involving nucleoside monophosphate kinases in the second step. In order to characterize the activation pathway of l-nucleosides of the pyrimidine series, we studied the enantio-selectivity of human uridylate-cytidylate and thymidylate kinases. The results showed that these enzymes are only weakly enantio-selective and are thus
近年来,人们对开发作为治疗病毒感染的安全有效药物的l-核苷产生了新的兴趣。这些化合物的
生物活性需要
磷酸化为
三磷酸形式,第二步涉及核苷单
磷酸激酶。为了表征
嘧啶系列的I-核苷的激活途径,我们研究了人
尿苷酸-
胞苷酸和
胸苷酸激酶的对映选择性。结果表明,这些酶仅具有弱对映体选择性,因此可能在体内参与了1-核苷的活化。因此提出了
替比夫定(1-dT)的激活途径。