Rapid In Vitro Evolution of Human Cytomegalovirus UL56 Mutations That Confer Letermovir Resistance

S Chou - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Letermovir (LMV) is an experimental cytomegalovirus terminase inhibitor undergoing phase
3 clinical trials. Viral mutations have been described at UL56 codons 231 to 369 that confer …

Geno- and Phenotypic Characterization of Human Cytomegalovirus Mutants Selected In Vitro after Letermovir (AIC246) Exposure

T Goldner, C Hempel… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Letermovir is a novel antiviral compound currently in clinical development for the prevention
of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infections. In contrast to all currently approved anti …

A third component of the human cytomegalovirus terminase complex is involved in letermovir resistance

S Chou - Antiviral research, 2017 - Elsevier
Letermovir is a human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase inhibitor that was clinically
effective in a Phase III prevention trial. In vitro studies have shown that viral mutations …

New Locus of Drug Resistance in the Human Cytomegalovirus UL56 Gene Revealed by In Vitro Exposure to Letermovir and Ganciclovir

S Chou, LE Satterwhite, RJ Ercolani - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Letermovir is a human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase inhibitor recently approved as
prophylaxis in stem cell transplant recipients. In further studies of emerging drug resistance …

Comparison of cytomegalovirus terminase gene mutations selected after exposure to three distinct inhibitor compounds

S Chou - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Letermovir, GW275175X (a benzimidazole), and tomeglovir (Bay38-4766) are chemically
unrelated human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase complex inhibitors that have been …

Characterization of cytomegalovirus breakthrough events in a phase 2 prophylaxis trial of letermovir (AIC246, MK 8228)

P Lischka, D Michel… - The Journal of infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background The efficacy of different letermovir (AIC246, MK8228) doses (60, 120, and 240
mg/day) against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) was evaluated in a recent phase 2b dose …

Clinical development of letermovir and maribavir: Overview of human cytomegalovirus drug resistance

J Piret, G Boivin - Antiviral research, 2019 - Elsevier
The prevention and treatment of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infections is based on the
use of antiviral agents that currently target the viral DNA polymerase and that may cause …

Letermovir and inhibitors of the terminase complex: a promising new class of investigational antiviral drugs against human cytomegalovirus

DP Melendez, RR Razonable - Infection and drug resistance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Infection with cytomegalovirus is prevalent in immunosuppressed patients. In solid organ
transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus infection is …

[HTML][HTML] Letermovir treatment of human cytomegalovirus infection antiinfective agent

PS Verghese, MR Schleiss - Drugs of the Future, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Novel therapies are urgently needed for the management of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease
in high-risk patients. Currently licensed agents target the viral DNA polymerase, and …

Advances in the genotypic diagnosis of cytomegalovirus antiviral drug resistance

S Chou - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) drug resistance mutation maps are updated with recent information
for polymerase inhibitors, the terminase inhibitor letermovir and the UL97 kinase inhibitor …