Tillekeratne LMV, Sherette A, Fulmer JA, Hupe L, Hupe D, Gabbara S, Peliska JA, Hudson RA. Differential inhibition of polymerase and strand-transfer activities of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2002;
12:525-8. [PMID:
11844664 DOI:
10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00827-7]
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Abstract
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.
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