HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors remain a cornerstone of antiretroviral therapy, targeting the enzyme responsible for converting viral RNA into DNA. This class of drugs, particularly nucleoside ...
Clin Drug Invest. 2007;27(8):509-531. Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can be divided into four different classes according to their modes of action: nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase ...
Retrotransposons could have a main role in the development of drug resistance in response to cancer treatment, according to a new study out of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. The ...
The development of new classes of antiretroviral drugs, such as integrase inhibitors and CCR5-antagonistic entry inhibitors, has opened the possibility of considering regimens without NRTIs (Table 1).
Potentiation of apoptosis inducing activity of BL-193, an inhibitor of Bcl-XL protein, by genistein in pancreatic cancer cells No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO ...
Rome Therapeutics Inc. has synthesized cyclopentene-oxymethylene phosphonamidate compounds acting as LINE-1 retrotransposable element ORF1 protein (L1RE1) and/or HERV-K reverse transcriptase ...
Many cancers exhibit high levels of the reverse transcriptase enzyme. Single-agent lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, stopped disease progression in over 25% of patients with fourth-line ...
Despite the success of protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors, new drugs to suppress HIV-1 replication are still needed. Several other early events in the viral life cycle (stages before the ...