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Caught in the Act: the 1.5 A resolution crystal structures of the HIV-1 protease and the I54V mutant reveal a tetrahedral reaction intermediate.
Biochemistry - 25 Dec 2007
Kovalevsky Andrey Y, Chumanevich Alexander A, Liu Fengling, Louis John M, Weber Irene T
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 protease (PR) is the target for several important antiviral drugs used in AIDS therapy. The drugs bind inside the active site cavity of PR where normally the viral polyprotein substrate is bound and hydrolyzed. We report two high-resolution crystal structures of wild-type PR (PRWT) and the multi-drug-resistant variant with the I54V mutation (PRI54V) in complex with a peptide at 1.46 and 1.50 A resolution,...
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