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New indolylarylsulfones as highly potent and broad spectrum HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

Valeria Famiglini1, Giuseppe La Regina1, Antonio Coluccia1

  • 1Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy.

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
|April 29, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
AIDSHIV-1IndolylarylsulfoneNonnucleoside inhibitorReverse transcriptase

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