Sanyo-kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

Kunichika Murakami

Hidetoshi Yoshioka

Eiji Kojima

Hidenori Fukinbara

Hiroaki Mitsuya

Samuel Broder

Makoto Machida

Makoto Yashiro

Shuji Ishida

Hiroyuki Yoshioka

Takuma Shirasaka

An anti-AIDS virus agent is disclosed, which is characterized in that it contains the 2',3'-dideoxypurinenucleosides represented by the chemical formula (I): ##STR1## as an effective ingredient.

Pharmaceutical composition containing

2',3'-Dideoxy purine nucleosides represented by following general formulae [I] and/or [II] ##STR1## (wherein X and Y indicate nitrogen atoms or carbon atoms and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 indicate each independently any of hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, amino group, alkyl group, halogen atom, alkoxy group and mercapto group) are produced by bioconversion with strains of E. coli, K. pneumoniae and E. herbicola.

2',3'-dideoxy purine nucleosides and process for the preparation thereof

An antiviral medicinal composition having spent liquor from kraft pulping and/or processed products thereof (kraft lignin, sulfomethylated and/or sulfopropylated kraft lignin) as major constituents, are effective agents in therapeutic and/or preventive methods against AIDS.

Antiviral disinfecting composition and method of inactivating the AIDS

2', 3'-Dideoxy purine nucleosides represented by following general formulae [I] and/or [II] ##STR1## (wherein X and Y indicate nitrogen atoms or carbon atoms and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 indicate each independently any of hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, amino group, alkyl group, halogen atom, alkoxy group and mercapto group), process for the preparation thereof and applications thereof to the antiviral agent, antiretroviral agent, therapeutic drug and preventive drug for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and experimental medicine and experimental reagent to be used in genetic engineering are claimed.

2',3'-dideoxy purine nucleoside

2',3'-Dideoxy-4-thio-uridine derivatives represented by a following general formula ##STR1## (wherein R indicates hydrogen or protecting groups such as acetyl group, benzoyl group, trityl groups, etc.), process for their preparation, antivirus agents used them as effective ingredients and therapeutic method and therapeutic drugs for virus diseases are disclosed.

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Iwakuni, Japan

Kunichika Murakami