JAC Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2005
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005 55(2):135-138; doi:10.1093/jac/dkh530
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JAC vol.55 no.2 © The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005; all rights reserved
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Pyridine N-oxide derivatives: unusual anti-HIV compounds with multiple mechanisms of antiviral action
Rega Institute for Medical Research, K. U. Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
* Corresponding author. Tel: +32-16-337341; Fax: +32-16-337340; Email: jan.balzarini{at}rega.kuleuven.ac.be
Pyridine N-oxide derivatives represent a new class of anti-HIV compounds, for which some members exclusively act through inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and thus characteristically behave as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Other members act, additionally or alternatively, at a post-integrational event in the replication cycle of HIV, that is, at the level of HIV gene expression. Repeated administration of one of the prototype compounds (JPL-32) to DBA/2 and hu-PBMC-SCID mice demonstrated, in the absence of any acute toxicity, protective activity against HIV-induced destruction of CD4 human T lymphocytes.
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