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From the * Laboratory of Experimental Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, B-3000
Leuven, Belgium; Bicyclams are a novel class of antiviral compounds that are highly potent and selective inhibitors of the replication of HIV-1 and HIV-2. Surprisingly, however, when the prototype compound AMD3100 was tested against M-tropic virus strains such as BaL, ADA, JR-CSF, and
SF-162 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, the compound was completely inactive.
Because of the specific and potent inhibitory effect of AMD3100 on T-tropic viruses, but not
M-tropic viruses, it was verified that AMD3100 interacts with the CXC-chemokine receptor
CXCR4, the main coreceptor used by T-tropic viruses. AMD3100 dose dependently inhibited
the binding of a specific CXCR4 monoclonal antibody to SUP-T1 cells as measured by flow
cytometry. It did not inhibit the binding of the biotinylated CC-chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP) 1
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research,
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; and § AnorMED, Langley, British Columbia, Canada, V2Y 1N5
or MIP-1
, ligands for the chemokine receptor CCR5 (the main
coreceptor for M-tropic viruses). In addition, AMD3100 completely blocked (a) the Ca2+ flux at
100 ng/ml in lymphocytic SUP-T1 and monocytic THP-1 cells, and (b) the chemotactic responses of THP-1 cells induced by stromal cell-derived factor 1
, the natural ligand for
CXCR4. Finally, AMD3100 had no effect on the Ca2+ flux induced by the CC-chemokines
MIP-1
, regulated on activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES; also a ligand
for CCR5), or monocyte chemoattractant protein 3 (a ligand for CCR1 and CCR2b), nor was
it able to induce Ca2+ fluxes by itself. The bicyclams are, to our knowledge, the first low molecular weight anti-HIV agents shown to act as potent and selective CXCR4 antagonists.
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