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Structural and functional studies of the potent anti-HIV chemokine variant P2-RANTES.
Proteins - 1 Feb 2010
Jin Hongjun, Kagiampakis Ioannis, Li Pingwei, Liwang Patricia J
Abstract excerpt
The N-terminal region of the chemokine RANTES is critical for its function. A synthesized N-terminally modified analog of RANTES, P2-RANTES, was discovered using a phage display selection against living CCR5-expressing cells, and has been reported to inhibit HIV-1 env-mediated cell-cell fusion at subnanomolar levels (Hartley et al. J Virol 2003;77:6637-6644). In the present study we produced this protein using E....
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