Chloroquine Exerts an Additive in Vitro Anti-HIV Type 1 Effect When Associated with Didanosine and Hydroxyurea
- 20 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
- Vol. 15 (14) , 1241-1247
- https://doi.org/10.1089/088922299310133
Abstract
Several groups, including ours, have reported that chloroquine (CQ) or its analog hydroxychloroquine has anti-HIV-1 activity both in vitro and in vivo . We studied in vitro whether the addition of CQ to the combination of hydroxyurea (HU) plus didanosine (ddI) had an additive effect in inhibiting the replication of HIV-1. Therefore both the H-9 T lymphocytic cell line and the U-937 promonocytic cell line as well as primary T cells and monocytes were infected with HIV-1 and then treated with HU at 0.2 mM and ddI at 1 mu M and varying concentrations of CQ. Addition of CQ resulted in an additional inhibition of HIV-1 replication, as assessed by reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, with a CQ EC50 of 0.4-0.9 mu M for the cell lines and of 0.2-0.9 mu M for the primary cells. Similarly, addition of CQ further inhibited HIV-1 replication in U-1 cells stimulated either with LPS or H2O2 and in ACH-2 cells stimulated either with PMA or H2O2, with CQ EC50 values of 0.1 and 1 mu M, respectively. Under the experimental conditions used, CQ induced neither toxicity nor apoptosis in the H-9 and U-937 cells. This in vitro additive anti-HIV-1 activity of CQ, in combination with HU + ddI, supports the idea that this triple regimen should be studied in clinical trials. It may become of particular interest to HIV-1-infected individuals from the developing world, in view of the low cost of both CQ and HU.Keywords
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