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High Throughput Screening and Characterization of HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors Targeting gp41: Theories and Techniques
1 Jun 2004
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The gp41 subunit of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein plays an important role in HIV-1 entry and severs as an attractive target for development of HIV-1 entry inhibitors, a new class of anti-HIV drugs. Triggered by gp120 binding to CD4 and a coreceptor, gp41 undergoes a conformation shift from a native prefusogenic state to a fusogenic state, in which the N-terminal heptad...
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