| Literature DB >> 24900847 |
Hongyi Cai1, Hua-Yu L Wang2, Rajkumar Venkatadri1, De-Xue Fu1, Michael Forman3, Sumit O Bajaj2, Hongyan Li2, George A O'Doherty2, Ravit Arav-Boger1.
Abstract
Cardiac glycosides are potent inhibitors of cancer cell growth and possess antiviral activities at nanomolar concentrations. In this study we evaluated the anticytomegalovirus (CMV) activity of digitoxin and several of its analogues. We show that sugar type and sugar length attached to the steroid core structure affects its anticytomegalovirus activity. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies identified the l-sugar containing cardiac glycosides as having improved anti-CMV activity and may lead to better understanding of how these compounds inhibit CMV replication.Entities:
Keywords: Cardiac glycosides; cytomegalovirus; digitoxin analogues; virus inhibition
Year: 2014 PMID: 24900847 PMCID: PMC4027591 DOI: 10.1021/ml400529q
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ACS Med Chem Lett ISSN: 1948-5875 Impact factor: 4.345