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Possible therapeutic vaccine strategy against human immunodeficiency virus escape from reverse transcriptase inhibitors studied in HLA-A2 transgenic mice.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2006
Okazaki Takahiro, Terabe Masaki, Catanzaro Andrew T, Pendleton C David, Yarchoan Robert, Berzofsky Jay A
Abstract excerpt
Mutation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) leading to escape from anti-HIV drugs is the greatest challenge to the treatment of HIV infection. High-grade resistance to the nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor lamivudine (also known as 3TC) is associated with a substitution of valine for methionine at position 184 of RT. This amino acid residue is contained within the HLA-A2-restricted epitope...
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