Mitochondrial toxicity of NRTI antiviral drugs: an integrated cellular perspective

W Lewis, BJ Day, WC Copeland - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimes based on nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) have revolutionized the treatment of AIDS in recent years …

Genetic risks of antiviral nucleoside analogues–a survey

P Wutzler, R Thust - Antiviral research, 2001 - Elsevier
The available informations on the genotoxic effects in experimental systems of the
antiherpesvirus nucleosides aciclovir, penciclovir, ganciclovir, brivudine and cidofovir as …

[HTML][HTML] Differential incorporation and removal of antiviral deoxynucleotides by human DNA polymerase γ

SE Lim, WC Copeland - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2001 - ASBMB
Mitochondrial toxicity can result from antiviral nucleotide analog therapy used to control
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. We evaluated the ability of such analogs to …

Mechanisms of genotoxicity of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

OA Olivero - Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleoside analogs were first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use
against HIV‐AIDS in 1987. Since then, these agents, now commonly referred to as …

Highly active antiretroviral therapy drug combination induces oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in immortalized human blood–brain barrier endothelial …

KR Manda, A Banerjee, WA Banks, N Ercal - Free Radical Biology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has controlled AIDS and its related
disorders considerably; however, the prevalence of HIV-1-associated neurocognitive …

KP-1212/1461, a nucleoside designed for the treatment of HIV by viral mutagenesis

KS Harris, W Brabant, S Styrchak, A Gall, R Daifuku - Antiviral research, 2005 - Elsevier
We report the activities of a novel nucleoside analog against HIV. This nucleoside (KP-1212)
is not a chain terminator but exerts its antiviral effects via mutagenesis of the viral genome …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporation of N7-Platinated Guanines into Thermus Aquaticus (Taq) DNA Polymerase: Atomistic Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

F De Castro, G Ciardullo, FP Fanizzi, M Prejanò… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, we elucidated some key aspects of the mechanism of action of the cisplatin
anticancer drug, cis-[Pt (NH3) 2Cl2], involving direct interactions with free nucleotides. A …

Perinatal genotoxicity and carcinogenicity of anti-retroviral nucleoside analog drugs

MC Poirier, OA Olivero, DM Walker… - Toxicology and applied …, 2004 - Elsevier
The current worldwide spread of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) to the
heterosexual population has resulted in approximately 800000 children born yearly to HIV-1 …

Toxicity of antiretroviral nucleoside and nucleotide analogues: is mitochondrial toxicity the only mechanism?

G Moyle - Drug safety, 2000 - Springer
Nucleoside analogues represent the cornerstones of antiretroviral regimens. A range of drug-
or tissue-specific toxicities, such as peripheral neuropathy, myopathy, pancreatitis and lactic …

Absence of a universal mechanism of mitochondrial toxicity by nucleoside analogs

KC Lund, LRL Peterson… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nucleoside analogs are associated with various mitochondrial toxicities, and it is becoming
increasingly difficult to accommodate these differences solely in the context of DNA …