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Journal of Virology, October 2000, p. 9328-9332, Vol. 74, No. 19
Istituto di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali,
Università di Milano, Ospedale Luigi Sacco, Milan,
Italy1; Infectious Disease Division,
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
Boston,2 and Infectious Disease,
Molecular Biology-Gene Expression, Genetics Institute Inc.,
Cambridge,3 Massachusetts; and
Departement de Biochimie Medicale, Centre Medical
Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland4
Received 18 May 2000/Accepted 7 July 2000
We studied the combined anti-human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 (HIV-1) effects of a derivative of stroma-derived
factor 1
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Combination of CCR5 and CXCR4 Inhibitors in Therapy of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection: In Vitro Studies of Mixed
Virus Infections
(SDF-1
), Met-SDF-1
, and a modified form of RANTES,
aminooxypentane (AOP)-RANTES. The antiviral agents were
tested singly or in combination at 95 and 99% virus inhibitory
concentrations. Clinical R5 and X4 HIV-1 isolates were used.
AOP-RANTES inhibited R5 but not X4 viruses, whereas Met-SDF-1
had
the opposite effect. Combinations of these compounds inhibited mixed
infections with R5 and X4 viruses (95 to 99%), whereas single drugs
were less inhibitory (32 to 61%). Combinations of R5 and X4 inhibitors
are promising and deserve further evaluation.
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di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Università di Milano, Ospedale
Luigi Sacco, via GB Grassi 74,20157 Milan, Italy. Phone:
39.02.39042676. Fax: 39.02.3560805. E-mail:
rusconi{at}mailserver.unimi.it.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Alessandro Caporali.
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