funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81761128020 and 82041001);the National Grand Program on Key Infectious Diseases(2017ZX10202102-002).
HIV-specific chimeric antigen receptor(CAR)T-cells have been developed to target HIV-1 infected CD4t T-cells that express HIV Env proteins.However,T cell exhaustion and the patient-specific autologous paradigm of CAR-...
supported financially by grants from the National Science Foundation of China(21432010 and 81660612);Technological leading talent project of Yunnan(2015HA020);Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project-Kunming Medical University Union Foundation(2017FE467(-127),Scientific Research Fund Projects from the Department of Education of Yunnan(2016ZDX042);the Hundred-Talent Program of Kunming Medical University(60117190441).
Natural products are the important source for the discovery of more potent anti-HIV agents.In this study,six daphnane diterpenoids including three unreported structures were isolated from Trigonostemon lii,which showe...
supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(Nos.HKBU12103618 and HKBU12103917);the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Baptist University(HKBU);Interdisciplinary Research Matching Scheme(No.RC-IRMS/15-16/02);the Hong Kong Scholars Program Foundation(No.XJ2015047);Mr.Kwok Yat Wai and Madam Kwok Chung Bo Fun Graduate School Development Fund(WANG Dong-Ying)
Twenty-one lignans including three new ones(1, 2 and 13) were isolated from Justicia procumbens. The chemical structures of the new lignans were determined by spectroscopic means including 1 D and 2 D NMR analysis. Th...
On May 5,2019,Thioraviroc,a new anti-HIV drug candidate that binds to CCR5(one of the key co-recepetors for HIV infection),received a clinical trial permission issued by the National Medical Products Administration(NM...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31730027).
The chemokine receptor CCR5 is an important anti-HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) drug target owning to its pivotal role in HIV-1 viral entry as a co-receptor. Here, we present a 2.9 A resolution crystal structure o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21532007, U1302222);the "Personalized Medicines-Molecular Signature-based Drug Discovery and Development";Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA12020321);the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
Anti-HIV screening with the MT-4/MTT assay on a focused library of structurally diverse natural products has led to the discovery of a group of steroids with potent activities, which include four new ergostane-type st...
supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant (1085359);supported by Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Postgraduate (Ph.D.) Award funded by the Australian Government,epartment of Education and Training,UQ international scholarship (UQI) and UQ Centenial scholarship (UQCent)
Nullbasic is a mutant form of HIV-1 Tat that has strong ability to protect cells from HIV-1 replication by inhibiting three different steps of viral replication: reverse transcription, Rev export of viral m RNA from t...
HIV/AIDS has had a crippling socio-economic effect on developing countries in Africa. EFV (Efavirenz) is generally used to treat this pathology. However, its clinical efficacy is reduced by its limited water solubil...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Nos.21172010,21002004)
Deamination is a crucial step in the transformation of 6-cyclopropylamino guanosine prodrug to its active form. A convenient method using capillary electrophoresis (CE) without sample labeling was developed to analy...