A highly potent nonnucleoside inhibitor (NNRTI) of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with Ki of 2.93 nM for WT HIV-1 RT.

Helichrysetin has mild anti-HIV-1 PR activity. Helichrysetin has great potentials for development as an anticancer agent, it has cytotoxic effect on four selected cancer cell lines, A549, MCF-7, Ca Ski, and HT-29.Searching for anti-HIV-1 protease (PR) inhibitors of Thai medicinal plants led to the isolation of a new cyclohexenyl chalcone named panduratin C and chalcone derivatives (2-6) from the methanol extract of Boesenbergia pandurata rhizomes.

I-XW-053 is an inhibitor of capsid targeted HIV-1 replication using the hybrid structure based method to block the interface between CA N-terminal domains (NTD-NTD interface) with micromolar affinity.