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Recognition and inhibition of HIV integrase by a novel dinucleotide
M Taktakishvili1, N Neamati, Y Pommier
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|March 4, 2000
Abstract:
The viral enzyme, HIV integrase, is involved in the integration of viral DNA into host cell DNA. In the quest for a small nucleotide system with nuclease stability of the internucleotide phosphate bond and critical structural features for recognition and inhibition of HIV-1 integrase, we have discovered a conceptually novel dinucleotide, pIsodApdC, which is a potent inhibitor of this key viral enzyme.