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The hit compound was initially identified as a modulator of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) capsid assembly in cell-free protein synthesis and assembly (CFPSA) systems, with demonstrated antiviral activity against infectious HIV in cell culture. Its advancement for ALS-therapeutics, subsequent separation of activity against HIV and ALS into separate chemical subseries through structure-activity-relationship (SAR) optimization, and identification of the drug target by affinity chromatography as shown here, may provide insights into the molecular mechanisms governing pathophysiology of disordered homeostasis relevant to ALS.","journal":"Journal of Experimental Neurology","year":2024,"id":456901,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":6,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9593,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1276025,"name":"Kumar Paulvannan","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1282248,"name":"Dennis Solas","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1275595,"name":"Anuradha F. 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