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Insights into the activity of maturation inhibitor PF-46396 on HIV-1 clade C.
Scientific reports - 2 Mar 2017
Ghimire Dibya, Timilsina Uddhav, Srivastava Tryambak Pratap, Gaur Ritu
Abstract excerpt
HIV maturation inhibitors are an emerging class of anti-retroviral compounds that inhibit the viral protease-mediated cleavage of the Gag, CA-SP1 (capsid-spacer peptide 1) peptide to mature CA. The first-in-class maturation inhibitor bevirimat (BVM) displayed potent activity against HIV-1 clade B but was ineffective against other HIV-1 clades including clade C. Another pyridone-based maturation inhibitor,...
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