Abstract
The flavonoid baicalin markedly inhibits replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in a concentration-dependent manner in normal peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) in vitro. The effect was more pronounced when the cells were pretreated with baicalin. Furthermore, baicalin inhibits HIV-1 replication in PHA-stimulated PBMC from asymptomatic HIV-1-seropositive carriers. The 50% inhibitory concentration for HIV-1 replication was approximately 0.5 μg/ml. At the concentration of 2 μg/ml of baicalin, copy numbers of HIV-1 proviral DNA were approximately 50 times less than in untreated controls. In a cell-free infection system, baicalin inhibited the activity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), but not the activity of human DNA polymerases α and γ (DNA polymerase β was slightly inhibited), suggesting that the anti-HIV-1 effect of baicalin may at least partly be due to inhibition of HIV-1 RT.
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