Inhibitor Griffithsin (nM) Dose reduction P<0.05 Inhibitor Dose reduction P <0.05
Alone Combi Alone Combi
Reverse transcriptase inhibitors
efavirenz (nM) 0.094 ± 0.014 0.019 ± 0.003 5.1 0.002 9.7 ± 2.1 4.8 ± 0.7 2.0 0.069
tenofovir (μM) 0.069 ± 0.020 0.064 ± 0.009 1.1 0.860 34.7 ± 4.0 0.66 ± 0.09 52.8 0.001
UC-781 (nM) 0.081 ± 0.009 0.024 ± 0.008 3.3 0.003 3.7 ± 1.1 1.5 ± 0.5 2.5 0.104
etravirine (nM) 0.074 ± 0.015 0.017 ± 0.005 4.4 0.010 1.4 ± 0.5 0.79 ± 0.22 1.8 0.285
Integrase inhibitors
raltegravir (nM) 0.093 ± 0.015 0.060 ± 0.019 1.5 0.213 18.7 ± 4.1 1.2 ± 0.4 15.2 0.003
elvitegravir (nM) 0.101 ± 0.015 0.028 ± 0.011 3.6 0.008 3.7 ± 1.1 1.7 ± 1.1 2.2 0.252
Protease inhibitors
saquinavir (μM) 0.080 ± 0.022 0.054 ± 0.004 1.5 0.322 >14.9 >14.9    
aMean EC50s ± SEM up to 5 independent experiments.
P<0.05 (unpaired T-test), compared to single drug treatment.
Table 3: EC50s of GRFT and HIV enzyme inhibitors, alone and in combination, in the HIV-1 induced cell-cell assay (giant cell assay).
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