Article
HIV-1 protease dimer interface mutations that compensate for viral reverse transcriptase instability in infectious virions.
Journal of molecular biology - 14 Sept 2007
Olivares Isabel, Mulky Alok, Boross Peter I, Tözsér József, Kappes John C, López-Galíndez Cecilio, Menéndez-Arias Luis
Abstract excerpt
Mature enzymes encoded within the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genome (protease (PR), reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase (IN)) derive from proteolytic processing of a large polyprotein (Gag-Pol). Gag-Pol processing is catalyzed by the viral PR, which is active as a homodimer. The HIV-1 RT functions as a heterodimer (p66/p51) composed of subunits of 560 and 440 amino acid residues,...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Dimerization
- Enzyme Stability
- HIV Protease
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Mutation
- Urea
- Virion
