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Functional studies of an HIV-1 encoded glutathione peroxidase.
BioFactors (Oxford, England) - 1 Jan 2006
Zhao Lijun, Olubajo Babatunde, Taylor Ethan Will
Abstract excerpt
In an alternate reading frame overlapping the viral envelope gene, HIV-1 has been shown to encoded a truncated glutathione peroxidase (GPx) module. Essential active site residues of the catalytic core regions of mammalian GPx sequences are conserved in the putative viral GPx (vGPx, encoded by the...
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