Design of a Novel Peptide Inhibitor of HIV Fusion That Disrupts the Internal Trimeric Coiled-coil of gp41

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The pre-hairpin intermediate of gp41 from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the target for two classes of fusion inhibitors that bind to the C-terminal region or the trimeric coiled-coil of N-terminal helices, thereby preventing formation of the fusogenic trimer of hairpins. Using rational design, two 36-residue peptides, N36(Mut(e,g)) and N36(Mut(a,d)), were derived from the parent N36 peptide comprising...

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