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Quantized water access to the HIV-1 protease active site as a proposed mechanism for cooperative mutations in drug affinity.
Biochemistry - 21 Aug 2012
Hall Benjamin A, Wright David W, Jha Shantenu, Coveney Peter V
Abstract excerpt
The development of resistance to different drugs remains a major problem for a wide range of infections. In particular, combinations of specific mutations, which individually demonstrate no effect, exhibit significant cooperativity. Here we show that changes to the energy of ligand binding in different resistant HIV-1 proteases are correlated with the creation of water binding sites in the active site. This...
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