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HIV-1 protease inhibitor mutations affect the development of HIV-1 resistance to the maturation inhibitor bevirimat.
Retrovirology - 24 Aug 2011
Fun Axel, van Maarseveen Noortje M, Pokorná Jana, Maas Renée Em, Schipper Pauline J, Konvalinka Jan, Nijhuis Monique
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BACKGROUND: Maturation inhibitors are an experimental class of antiretrovirals that inhibit Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) particle maturation, the structural rearrangement required to form infectious virus particles. This rearrangement is triggered by the ordered cleavage of the precursor Gag polyproteins into their functional counterparts by the viral enzyme protease. In contrast to protease inhibitors,...
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