R430: A potent inhibitor of DNA and RNA viruses
Sci Rep. 2018 Nov 9;8(1):16662. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-33904-y. Leonardo D’Aiuto 1, James McNulty 2, Caroll Hartline 3, Matthew Demers 1, Raj Kalkeri 4, Joel Wood 1, Lora McClain 5, Ansuman Chattopadhyay 6, Yun Zhi 7, Jennifer Naciri 1, Adam Smith 1, Robert Yolken 8, Kodavali Chowdari 1, Carlos Zepeda-Velazquez 2, Chanti Babu Dokuburra 2, Ernesto Marques 9, Roger Ptak 4, Paul Kinchington 10, Simon Watkins 11, Mark Prichard 3, David Bloom 12, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar 13 14 PMID: 30413769 PMCID: PMC6226428 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33904-y Abstract Acyclovir (ACV) is an effective antiviral agent for treating lytic Herpes Simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) infections, and it has …