Patent ID: 9682994
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A61K,C07D

Claim:
1. A method of treating a retroviral infection in a patient, comprising: administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of retroviral transcription wherein the inhibitor inhibits retroviral transcription as compared to a control; and, thereby treating a retroviral infection in the patient, wherein the inhibitor of retroviral transcription comprises didehydro cortistatin A; cortistatin A; a compound shown in formula XII wherein the circled X is 7-isoquinoline, R1 and R5 are independently hydrogen or alkyl; or a compound shown in formula XIII, wherein the circled X is 7-isoquinoline, R1 and R5 are independently hydrogen or alkyl, and the carbon attached to by the circled X has a stereochemistry of S (3S):