Emtricitabine (FTC)

Catalog No.S1704 Batch:S170406

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Technical Data

Formula

C8H10FN3O3S

Molecular Weight 247.25 CAS No. 143491-57-0
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 49 mg/mL (198.17 mM)
Water 49 mg/mL (198.17 mM)
Ethanol 49 mg/mL (198.17 mM)
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble.
* Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations.
* Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.)

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Biological Activity

Description Emtricitabine (FTC) is a new nucleoside agent that has activity against both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus. It is a reverse transcriptase inhibitor. Intracellular half-life is 39 h.
Targets
Reverse transcriptase [1]
In vitro Emtricitabine moderately reduces hepatocyte proliferation independent of effects on mtDNA in HepG2 human hepatoma cells. Emtricitabine plus tenofovir slightly reduced cell proliferation without affecting mitochondrial parameters. [1] Emtricitabine efficiently converts to their active metabolites in PBMCs and CEM cells. Emtricitabine combined with Tenofovir displays additive to synergistic activity against HIV replication in PBMCs and results in strongly synergistic anti-HIV activity in MT-2 cells against both wild-type and mutant virus. [2] Emtricitabine demonstrates antiviral activity against laboratory adapted strains of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in various cell system. Emtricitabine also exhibits antiviral activity in cell culture against feline and simian immuno-deficiency viruses (SIVs). Emtricitabine consistently exhibits up to 10-fold greater activity than lamivudine against all viruses tested in all T-cell lines. Emtricitabine generally demonstrates greater potency in vitro in human PBMCs than in MT-4 lines. [3] Emtricitabine also exhibits anti-HBV activity in vitro (EC50, 0.01–0.04 µM) that is comparable to the anti-HBV activity of 3TC. [4] Emtricitabine is approximately fourfold more active than 3TC in assays in the transformed T-cell line MT-4 infected with HIV-(1IIIB), whereas Zidovudine is more active than Emtricitabine. Emtricitabine, Lamivudine and Zidovudine are equally active against a panel of eight primary HIV-1 isolates from antiretroviral-naive subjects in PBMCs. [5]

Protocol (from reference)

Selleck's Emtricitabine (FTC) has been cited by 15 publications

IKAROS expression drives the aberrant metabolic phenotype of macrophages in chronic HIV infection [ Clin Immunol, 2024, 260:109915] PubMed: 38286172
Biological and Structural Analyses of New Potent Allosteric Inhibitors of HIV-1 Integrase [ Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 2023, 67(7):e0046223] PubMed: 37310224
Acute antagonism in three-drug combinations for vaginal HIV prevention in humanized mice [ Sci Rep, 2023, 13(1):4594] PubMed: 36944714
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition Disrupts Repeat Element Life Cycle in Colorectal Cancer [ Cancer Discov, 2022, candisc.1117.2021] PubMed: 35320348
Cell-to-cell transmission of HIV-1 from provirus-activated cells to resting naïve and memory human primary CD4 T cells is highly efficient and requires CD4 and F-actin but not chemokine receptors [ J Med Virol, 2022, 10.1002/jmv.28005] PubMed: 35840493
Reduction of CD8 T cell functionality but not inhibitory capacity by integrase inhibitors [ J Virol, 2022, JVI0173021] PubMed: 35019724
People with HIV-1 demonstrate type 1 interferon refractoriness associated with upregulated USP18 [ J Virol, 2021, JVI.01777-20] PubMed: 33658340
SARS-CoV-2 RdRp Inhibitors Selected from a Cell-Based SARS-CoV-2 RdRp Activity Assay System [ Biomedicines, 2021, 9(8)996] PubMed: 34440200
Altered Gut Microbiome under Antiretroviral Therapy: Impact of Efavirenz and Zidovudine [ ACS Infect Dis, 2020, 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00536] PubMed: 33346662
Effect of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy on immune cellular functions. [ JCI Insight, 2019, 4(12)] PubMed: 31217351

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