Bictegravir

Description : Bictegravir is a novel, potent inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase with an IC50 of 7.5 nM for strand transfer activity. Bictegravir is a drug of the integrase inhibitor class that was copied from Dolutegravir by scientists at Gilead Sciences. Bictegravir also inhibits HIV-1 viral infection in MT-2 and MT-4 cells, CD4+ T cells, and macrophages (EC50s = 1.5, 2.5, 1.5, and 6.6 nM, respectively) without exhibiting cytotoxicity (CC50s = 10.3, 3.7, 13, and 29.8 μM, respectively). In 2016, bictegravir was in a Phase 3 trial as part of a single tablet regimen in combinat >>more