| Literature DB >> 16737697 |
Karin Moelling1, Susanne Abels, Joerg Jendis, Alexey Matskevich, Jochen Heinrich.
Abstract
We describe inhibition of HIV replication by a partially double-stranded 54mer oligodeoxynucleotide, ODN, which consists of an antisense strand targeting the highly conserved polypurine tract, PPT, of HIV, and a second strand, compatible with triple-helix formation. Upon treatment of HIV-infected cells with ODN early after infection no viral nucleic acids, syncytia or p24 viral antigen expression was observed. The ODN-mediated effect was highly sequence-specific. The ODN against HIV-IIIB was effective preferentially against its homologous PPT and less against the PPT of HIV-BaL differing in two of 24 nucleotides and vice versa. It may be interesting mechanistically as an antiviral drug.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16737697 DOI： 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.05.033
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN： 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124