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Identification of amino acid residues in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase that are critical for the proteolytic processing of Gag-Pol precursors.
FEBS letters - 4 Nov 2011
Nishitsuji Hironori, Yokoyama Masaru, Sato Hironori, Yamauchi Suguru, Takaku Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
The efficient processing of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag-Pol requires not only protease activity but also specific reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase sequences. However, the critical amino acid residues of the HIV-1 Pol gene involved in protease-mediated Gag-Pol processing have not been precisely defined. Here, we found that the substitution of Thr-128 or Tyr-146 with Ala markedly impaired the...
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