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interesting in vitro antiviral activity against wild-type virus and
three multi-PI resistant virus strains. Many analogues display low
nanomolar activity, and for some analogues, the hypersuscept-
ibility of the mutants in a cellular context is noteworthy. On the
basis of our modeling studies, it could be shown that PIs 3/5h
successfully extend the “backbone binding” concept,21 which is
crucial in combating multidrug resistance. Structural studies on
the characterization of potential new ligandꢀenzyme interac-
tions as well as further structureꢀactivity relationship studies on
disubstituted bis-THF ligands are currently underway.
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for antiviral activity determination.
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Supporting Information. Description of inhibition assay
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and experimental procedures and spectral data for compounds 3,
5, 6, 9, 11, and 12. This material is available free of charge via the
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