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SUBMITTER: Williams JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3509806 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20120501 12
A second-generation series of substituted methylenecyclopropane nucleosides (MCPNs) has been synthesized and evaluated for antiviral activity against a panel of human herpesviruses, and for cytotoxicity. Although alkylated 2,6-diaminopurine analogs showed little antiviral activity, the compounds containing ether and thioether substituents at the 6-position of the purine did demonstrate potent and selective antiviral activity against several different human herpesviruses. In the 6-alkoxy series, ...[more]