Synonyms: acyclovir | Zovirax®
aciclovir is an approved drug (FDA (1982, prior history not available))
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: Aciclovir is a nucleoside analogue antiviral drug.
Aciclovir is on the World Health Organisation's List of Essential Medicines. Click here to access the pdf version of the WHO's 21st Essential Medicines list (2019). Ligand Activity Visualisation ChartsThese are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts. ✖ |
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Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects |
Aciclovir is a guanosine analogue and is converted by host cell kinases to aciclovir triphosphate (ACV-TP), which then competitively inhibits and inactivates viral DNA polymerases [2] and is incorporated into viral DNA [1,3]. This action halts viral replication. |