Differential Inhibition of polymerase and Strand-Transfer Activities of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase
作者:L.M.Viranga Tillekeratne、Angela Sherette、Jennifer A Fulmer、Lynn Hupe、Donald Hupe、Sam Gabbara、James A Peliska、Richard A Hudson
DOI:10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00827-7
日期:2002.2
A new class of inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase obtained by the systematic structural simplification of epicatechin and epigallocatechin gallates are also shown here to inhibit DNA-strand-transfer, a process critical to the completion of the HIV-1-RT reproduction and to recombination-associated mutation of the virus. Up to 80-fold selectivity for DNA-strand-transfer inhibition over polymerase inhibition was observed for a defined subset of these agents. Such specific DNA-strand-transfer inhibitors may have important therapeutic potential. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.