Cholesteryl-conjugated oligonucleotides: synthesis, properties, and activity as inhibitors of replication of human immunodeficiency virus in cell culture.
AUTOR(ES)
Letsinger, R L
RESUMO
A family of oligonucleotides and phosphorothioate oligonucleotide analogues was synthesized with a cholesteryl group tethered at the 3'-terminal internucleoside link. This modification, introduced to enhance interaction of the polyanions with cell membranes, significantly increases the antiviral activity of the oligomers, as judged by inhibition of syncytia formation and expression of viral proteins p17, p24, and reverse transcriptase for human immunodeficiency virus 1 in Molt-3 cells. In the most favorable case, with a 20-mer cholesteryl-phosphorothioate derivative, complete inhibition by all assays was obtained with an oligomer concentration of 0.2 microM. Even decamers were active, and some antiviral activity was observed for a heptanucleotide cholesteryl-phosphorothioate derivative, which binds very poorly to complementary oligonucleotides. These facts, and the finding that the activity of the phosphorothioate decamers does not correlate with a specific sequence, suggests that a mechanism other than "antisense inhibition" may be operative in these systems.
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