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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, May 2004, p. 1900-1903, Vol. 48, No. 5
0066-4804/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.5.1900-1903.2004
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Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center,1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology,2 Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 275993
Received 1 October 2003/ Returned for modification 4 December 2003/ Accepted 21 January 2004
The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) homolog of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) protein kinase (PK), UL97, is inhibited by maribavir (1263W94) and selected indolocarbazoles. Here we show that only one of these indolocarbazoles (K252a), but not maribavir, inhibits autophosphorylation of the EBV PK, BGLF4. However, maribavir and another indolocarbazole, NGIC-I, do inhibit EBV DNA synthesis, suggesting that although these last compounds inhibit both HCMV and EBV, they seem to operate through differ-ent pathways.
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