Article
Mechanisms of resistance to antiretroviral drugs--clinical implications.
AIDS reviews - 1 Jan 2000
de Mendoza Carmen, Gallego Oscar, Soriano Vincent
Abstract excerpt
HIV resistance to antiretroviral agents involves the selection of mutations within the reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease (PRO) genes, that result in structural changes causing in most instances a loss of affinity of RT and PRO inhibitors for their respective targets. Then, the inhibitory competition caused by these molecules in respect to the physiologic substrates of the RT and PRO enzymes is lost. For...
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