Table 1

Measured (uncorrected) intracellular decay half-time (tm) values for selected ddNTPs

ddNTPtm Cell TypeRef.
hr
AZT-TP2.1–3.4PHA-PBMTörneviket al. (1)
AZT-TP3.3CEMHo & Hitchcock (8)
D4T-TP3.3CEMHo & Hitchcock (8)
D4T-TP3.5PHA-PBMZhu et al. (2)
3TC-TP (β-d)3.5PHA-PBMCammack et al. (9)
ddGTP4.2MOLT-4Ahluwalia et al. (10)
ddGTP5.2CEMBondoc et al. (11)
ddCTP5.7MOLT-4Hao et al. (12)
ddCTP9.5CEMBlakley et al. (13)
3TC-TP (β-l)10.5–13.5PHA-PBM (HIV-infected)Cammack et al. (9)
3TC-TP (β-l)12–15.5PHA-PBM (uninfected)Cammack et al. (9)
F-ddATP19MOLT-4Fig. 1
F-ddATP20PBM (quiescent)Ho et al. (5)
F-ddATP20U937Hitchcock et al. (14)
ddATP22MOLT-4Fig. 1
ddATP43PHA-PBMGaoet al.1-a
  • TP, triphosphate; ddCTP, 2′,3′-dideoxycytidine-5′-triphosphate.

  • 1-a W.-Y. Gao, D. G. Johns, and H. Mitsuya, unpublished results.