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How does influenza virus a escape from amantadine?
The journal of physical chemistry. B - 1 Jul 2010
Qin Guangrong, Yu Kunqian, Shi Ting, Luo Cheng, Li Guohui, Zhu Weiliang, Jiang Hualiang
Abstract excerpt
Antiflu drugs such as amantadine (AMT) were reported to be insensitive to influenza A virus gradually after their marketing. Mutation experiments indicate that the trans-membrane domain of M2 protein plays an essential role in AMT resistance, especially the S31N mutation. To investigate the details of structure and mechanism, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM)...
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