Didanosine

API

N° CAS 69655-05-6

Antivirals for systemic use

• Didanosine is an antiretroviral drug, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• White or slightly white powder
• It is phosphorylated to an active metabolite, dideoxyadenosine triphosphate, ddATP, by cellular enzymes. Like other anti-HIV nucleoside analogues, it acts as an incorporation chain terminator and inhibits viral reverse transcriptase by competing with natural dATP.