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Time delayed addition studies with the pseudotyped viruses show that papuamide A inhibits viral infection only at the initial stage of the viral life cycle. Additionally, pretreatment studies revealed that the virus, and not the cell, is the target of papuamide A’s action. Together, these results suggest a direct virucidal mechanism of HIV-1 inhibition by papuamide A. We also demonstrate here that the other papuamides (B-D) are able to inhibit viral entry indicating that the free amino moiety of 2,3-diaminobutanoic acid residue is not required for the virucidal activity.</jats:p>","journal":"Marine Drugs","year":2008,"id":19184,"datarank":2.136042183123841,"base_score":4.04305126783455,"endowment":4.04305126783455,"self_citation_contribution":0.6064576901751826,"citation_network_contribution":1.5295844929486586,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6064576901751826,"citer_contribution":1.5295844929486586,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":56,"citer_count":54,"citers_with_citation_signal":47,"citers_with_endowment":47,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":130740,"name":"Vicente Planelles","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":130741,"name":"Louis R. 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