Antivirals Flashcards
Goals of ART?
reduce HIv infection-related morbidity and prolong duration and quality of survival
resotre and preserve immunologic function
maximally and durably suppress viral load
prevent vertical HIV transmission
Key - achieve and maintain durable viral suppression
HAART
highly active antiretroviral therapy
increase survivability
how would you determine which drugs to choose?
-Pre ART - determine CD4 count, measure HIV RNA and perform resistance testing
-determine viral tropism - prior to initiation of CCr5 antagonist
HLAB*5701 testing - prior to initiation of abacavir (ABC) due to risk of hypersensitivity reaction
What shows success of ART treatment?
high potency of ARV regimen
excellent adherence to treatment regimen
low baseline viremia
higher baseline CD4 count - >200 cells/mm3
rapid reduction of viremia in response to treatment
Classes of Antiretrovirals
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Integrase inhibitor
Fusion inhibitors
Chemokine receptor antagonists - CCR5 antagonists
What can Antiretrovirals NOT do?
do not cure HIV infection or AIDS
do not eliminate risk of passing HIV to other
HIV medicines must be taken in combination with other HIV medicines
not all medicines are right for all ppl and treatments may be different for each person
Mechanism of Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
- competitively inhibit RT effectively blocking ability of virus to make a provirus copy
- the NRTIs gets added to the growing proviral chain by RT leading to chain termination
- bind at the RT active site
Zidovudine
ZDV (was AZT)
Thymidine analogue
When ZDV was used as monotherapy
HIV quickly became resistant
so currently used in combination drug regimens
Side effects of ZDV
anemia and granulocytopenia
avoid using with other myelosuppressive drugs
Examples of Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Zidovudine - AZT,ZDV Lamivudine Abacavir (this is the one associated with hypersens. reaction) Didanosine Emtricitabine Stavudine Tenofovir
Non nucleoside Reverse transcriptase inhibitors mechanism?
bind to and alter reverse transcriptase
bind directly to RT
can be used synergistically with NRTIs due to differences in binding location
what is a concern with NNRTI?
whether the virus will be susceptible or resistant
Examples of NNRTIs
Efavirenz* Delavirdine Nevirapine Rilpivirine Etravirine - has anti HIV-2 activity as well
Mechanism of Protease Inhibitors
binds to HIV protease (which essential for proteolytic processing of nascentt polypeptides into individual proteins during maturation)
Activity of PIs
against HIV-1 and HIV-2
Mechanism of resistance to PIs
due to mutations inside and outside the active protease domain
Examples of Protease Inhibitors
Ritonavir* Darunavir Atazanavir Fosamprenavir Indinavir Nelfinavir Saquinavir Tipranavir
Potency of NRTI
less potent than NNRTIs and PIs
Mechanism of ZDV/AZT resistance?
mutations remove ZDV from DNA chain
a conformational change allowed Thymine to continue to bind but disabled
ZDVs ability to bind RT
also able to remove ZDV from the proviral DNA
NRTI is active against?
HIV-1 and HIV-2
Efavirenz
preferred drug for combination therapy in treatment naive individuals
Etravirine
has anti-HIV-2 activity as well
Ritonavir side effects?
inhibits host protein cytochrome P450 3A4 which results in failure to metabolize other drugs, including other PIs, this leads to higher serum levels and sometime an increase in toxicity
Lipodystrophy
Fat wasting - fat is lost from arms, legs, face and buttocks
fat redistribution due to PIs (&NNRTIs)
disturbs the way the body produces, uses, and stores fat