Herpes drug inhibits HIV replication, but with a price
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 10:56
in Health & Medicine
The anti-herpes drug acyclovir can also directly slow down HIV infection by targeting the reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme, researchers report in this week's JBC. This beneficial effect does pose a risk though, as HIV-infected cells treated with acyclovir promote the emergence of multi-drug resistant HIV variants...