Claims
- 1. A method of selecting a compound for inhibiting the replication of herpes viruses comprising the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type herpes virus; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant herpes virus which is the same strain as the wild type herpes virus and has a mutation in its binding domain; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step b) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step a).
- 2. A method of selecting a compound for inhibiting the replication of herpes viruses comprising the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant herpes virus which has a mutation in its binding domain; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type herpes virus which is the same strain as the mutant herpes virus; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step a) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step b).
- 3. A method of selecting a compound that inhibits the replication of herpes viruses which comprises the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HSV-1; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HSV-1 which is the same strain as the wild type HSV-1 and has a mutation in its binding domain; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step b) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step a).
- 4. A method of selecting a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of herpes viruses which comprises the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HSV-1 which has a mutation in its binding domain; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HSV-1 which is the same strain as the mutant HSV-1; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) which the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step a) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step b).
- 5. A method of selecting a compound that inhibits the replication of herpes viruses which comprise the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HSV-2; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HSV-2 which is the same strain as the wild type HSV-2 and has a mutation in its binding domain; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step b) is at least three times greater than the IC50 of step a).
- 6. A method of selecting a compound for inhibiting the replication of herpes viruses comprising the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HSV-2 which has a mutation in its binding domain; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HSV-2 which is the same strain as the mutant HSV-2; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step a) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step b).
- 7. A method of selecting a compound that inhibits the replication of herpes viruses which comprises the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HCMV; b) measuring IC50 of the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HCMV which is the same strain as the wild type HCMV and ha a mutation in its binding domain; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 of step b) is at least 3 times greater than the IC50 of step a).
- 8. A method of selecting a compound that inhibits the replication of herpes viruses which comprises the steps of:a) measuring IC50 of a compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a mutant HCMV which has a mutation in its binding domain; b) measuring IC50 for the compound of interest that inhibits the replication of a wild type HCMV which is the same strain as the mutant HCMV; c) comparing the IC50 of step a) with the IC50 of step b); and d) selecting the compound of interest when the IC50 step a) is at least three times greater than the IC50 of step b).
- 9. The method of claim 1 or 2 wherein the herpes virus is HSV-1, HSV-2, HCMV, VZV, EBV, or HHV-8.
- 10. The method of claim 3 or 4 wherein HSV-1 is HSV-1 KOS, HSV-1 F, HSV-1 DJL or HSV-1 Patton.
- 11. The method of claim 3 or 4 wherein the mutation of a wild type herpes virus to mutant herpes virus is at amino acid 823 from valine to alanine.
- 12. The method of claim 5 or 6 wherein HSV-2 is HSV-2 MS, HSV-2 35D, or HSV-2 186.
- 13. The method of claim 7 or 8 wherein HCMV is HCMV AD169.
- 14. The methods of claims 1, 3, 5 or 7 wherein IC50 of step b is at least 5 times greater than the IC50 of step a.
- 15. The methods of claims 2, 4, 6 or 8 wherein IC50 of step a is at least 5 times greater than the IC50 of step b.
CROSS REFERENCE
This application claims the benefit of the following provisional applications: U.S. Ser. No: 60/218,118, filed Jul. 13, 2000; Ser. No: 60/283,880, filed Apr. 13, 2001 under 35 USC 119(e)(i).
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