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SUBMITTER: Liao C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413320 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liao Chenzhong C Marchand Christophe C Burke Terrence R TR Pommier Yves Y Nicklaus Marc C MC
Future medicinal chemistry 20100701 7
HIV-1 integrase (IN) is indispensable for HIV-1 replication and has become a validated target for developing anti-AIDS agents. In two decades of development of IN inhibition-based anti-HIV therapeutics, a significant number of compounds were identified as IN inhibitors, but only some of them showed antiviral activity. This article reviews a number of patented HIV-1 IN inhibitors, especially those that possess high selectivity for the strand transfer reaction. These compounds generally have a pol ...[more]