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. 2012 Jan 19;8(1):e1002359. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002359

Figure 3. Factors that modify inhibition of DNA polymerization by nucleoside analogs.

Figure 3

A: Cell-specific factors: Concentration response curve of ddATP for wild type RT during DNA-dependent polymerization (homo-polymeric sequence) in unstimulated Inline graphic T-cells (solid line) and the impact of a 100-fold variation of the the intracellular nucleoside concentrations (dotted line). The illustration was generated by evaluating eq. (19) and typical parameters for DNA-dependent polymerization during HIV-1 reverse transcription and its inhibition by ddATP (all parameters are indicated in Table 1 and Table S1, supplementary material). The corresponding Inline graphic is depicted by a green filled circle. B: Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and hyper-susceptibility (dashed lines). Impact of (i) selective attrition of inhibitor incorporation Inline graphic and (ii) selective attrition of inhibitor binding to the primer-template Inline graphic on drug susceptibility. Hypersusceptibility is conferred by the opposite change in the indicated parameters. In order to generate the dashed lines, the respective parameters have been increased/decreased by a factor of 100.