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Mutations of Glu560 within HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein N-terminal heptad repeat region contribute to resistance to peptide inhibitors of virus entry.
Retrovirology - 3 Dec 2019
Yuan Chen, Wang Jia-Ye, Zhao Hai-Jiao, Li Yan, Li Di, Ling Hong, Zhuang Min
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Peptides corresponding to N- and C-terminal heptad repeat regions (HR1 and HR2, respectively) of gp41 can inhibit HIV-1 infection in a dominant negative manner by interfering with refolding of the viral HR1 and HR2 to form a six-helix bundle (6HB) that induces fusion between viral and host cell membranes. Previously, we found that HIV-1 acquired the mutations of Glu560 (E560) in HR1 of envelope (Env)...
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