In vitro activity: S/GSK1349572 shows the potent inhibitory effect on nine clinical isolates from integrase inhibitor-naive HIV-2-infected patients with EC50 ranging from 0.2 nM -1.4 nM. In vitro, S/GSK1349572 inhibits recombinant HIV-1 integrase-catalyzed strand transfer with IC50 of 2.7 nM. Furthermore, S/GSK1349572 potently inhibits HIV replication in cells such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), MT-4 cells and CIP4 cells infected with a self-inactivating PHIV lentiviral vector with EC50 of 0,51 nM, 0.71 nM and 2.2 nM, respectively. In vitro, S/GSK1349572 exhibits potent activity against five different nonnucleoside reverse transcription inhibitor--resistant or nucleoside reverse transcription inhibitor--resistant viruses with EC50 ranging from 1.3 nM -2.1 nM. Similarly to that against wild-type virus, S/GSK1349572 shows equivalent activity against two protease inhibitor-resistant viruses with EC50 of 0.36 nM and 0.37 nM, respectively.

Kinase Assay: The inhibitory potencies of S/GSK1349572 and other INIs are measured in a strand transfer assay using recombinant HIV integrase. A complex of integrase and biotinylated preprocessed donor DNA-streptavidin-coated Acintillation proximity assay (SPA) beads is formed by incubating 2 μM purified recombinant integrase with 0.66 μM biotinylated donor DNA-4 mg/mL streptavidin-coated SPA beads in 25 mM sodium morpholinepropanesulfonic acid (MOPS) (pH 7.2), 23 mM NaCl, and 10 mM MgCl2 for 5 minutes at 37 °C. These beads are spun down and preincubated with diluted INIs for 60 minutes at 37 °C. Then a 3H-labeled target DNA substrate is added to give a final concentration of 7 nM substrate, and the strand transfer reaction mixture is incubated at 37 °C for 25 to 45 minutes, which allows for a linear increase in the strand transfer of donor DNA to radiolabeled target DNA. The signal is read using a Wallac MicroBeta scintillation plate reader.

Cell Assay: MT-4 cells growing exponentially at a density of 500000 or 600000 /mL are infected with HIV-1 strain IIIB at a viral multiplicity of infection of 0.001 or a 50% tissue culture infective dose of 4 to 10. The cells are then aliquoted to 96-well plates in the presence of varying concentrations of S/GSK1349572. After incubation for 4 or 5 days, antiviral activity is determined by a cell viability assay that either measured bioluminescence with a CellTiter-Glo luminescent reagent or measured absorbance at 560 and 690 nm using the yellow tetrazolium MTT reagent [3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide].

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