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Placement of leucine zipper motifs at the carboxyl terminus of HIV-1 protease significantly reduces virion production.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Pan Yen-Yu, Wang Shiu-Mei, Huang Kuo-Jung, Chiang Chien-Cheng, Wang Chin-Tien
Abstract excerpt
Natural HIV-1 protease (PR) is homodimeric. Some researchers believe that interactions between HIV-1 Gag-Pol molecules trigger the activation of embedded PR (which mediates Gag and Gag-Pol cleavage), and that Gag-Pol assembly domains outside of PR may contribute to PR activation by influencing PR dimer interaction in a Gag-Pol context. To determine if the enhancement of PR dimer interaction facilitates PR...
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