Many of the nucleoside antibiotics exhibit their activity only after conversion into their nucleotide form (mono- or triphosphate) once inside the cell. A number of nucleoside analogues which were ...
The main goals of chronic hepatitis B treatment should be the long-term suppression of viral replication to minimize disease progression and the risk for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma.
(A) Nucleoside triphosphates serve as a substrate ... releases the free energy needed to drive the incorporation of each nucleotide into the growing DNA chain. The reaction shown on the bottom ...