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Flap-site Fragment Restores Back Wild-type Behaviour in Resistant Form of HIV Protease.
Molecular informatics - 1 Dec 2018
Luchi Adriano, Angelina Emilio, Bogado Lucrecia, Forli Stefano, Olson Arthur, Peruchena Nélida
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 protease (HIV-PR) performs a vital step in the virus life cycle which makes it an excellent target for drug therapy. However, due to the error-prone of HIV reverse transcriptase, mutations in HIV-PR often occur, inducing drug-resistance to inhibitors. Some HIV-PR mutations can make the flaps of the enzyme more flexible thus increasing the flaps opening rate and inhibitor releasing. It has been shown that by...
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