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Novel inhibitory effects of gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 production and propagation.

Abstract：

:The anti-human immunodeficiency virus type I (anti-HIV-1) effects of gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester (gamma-GCE; TEI-2306) were examined in vitro. In initial studies using a vigorously HIV-1-producing human T-lymphocytic cell line, gamma-GCE displayed a novel biphasic repressive effect on chronic HIV-1 infection that was unlike that of other glutathione prodrugs or other reported antioxidants. In high doses, up to a concentration of 2.5 mM, at which neither glutathione (GSH) nor another GSH precursor has shown inhibitory effects, gamma-GCE potently inhibited the production of HIV-1 by a selective cytopathic effect against infected cells, while the viability and growth of uninfected cells were unaffected at the same gamma-GCE concentrations. At lower concentrations (200 to 400 microM), gamma-GCE significantly repressed the virus production from chronically HIV-1-expressing cells without affecting their viability. The discrepancy of the thresholds of the toxic doses between infected and uninfected cells was found to be more than 10-fold. Relatively high doses of gamma-GCE, utilized in acute HIV-1 infection of T-lymphocytic cells, entirely blocked the propagation of HIV-1 and rescued the cells from HIV-1-induced cell death. Furthermore, gamma-GCE at such concentrations was found to directly inhibit the infectivity of HIV-1 within 4 h. Repressive effects of gamma-GCE on acute HIV-1 infection in human primary human peripheral blood mononuclear cells were also demonstrated. Here, the anti-HIV-1 strategy utilizing gamma-GCE is removal of both HIV-1-producing cells and free infectious HIV-1 in vitro, in place of specific immunoclearance in vivo, which might lead to an arrest or slowing of viral propagation in HIV-1-infected individuals.

journal_name

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

journal_title

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors

Kubota S,Shetty S,Zhang H,Kitahara S,Pomerantz RJ

doi

10.1128/AAC.42.5.1200

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1200-6

issue

eissn

0066-4804

issn

1098-6596

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Novel inhibitory effects of gamma-glutamylcysteine ethyl ester against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 production and propagation.