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Suppression of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 production by coexpression of catalytic-region-deleted N-myristoyltransferase mutants.
Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin - 1 Jan 2010
Takamune Nobutoki, Kuroe Tetsuya, Tanada Noriaki, Shoji Shozo, Misumi Shogo
Abstract excerpt
N-Myristoyltransferase (NMT) isozymes, i.e., NMT1 and NMT2, are essential host factors for the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1), by which the viral proteins Pr55(gag) and Nef are N-myristoylated. N-Myristoylation is important for the membrane targeting of modified proteins. Since it is predicted that approximately 0.5% of all proteins in the human genome are N-myristoylated, selective...
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