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Avoiding Drug Resistance by Substrate Envelope-Guided Design: Toward Potent and Robust HCV NS3/4A Protease Inhibitors.
mBio - 31 Mar 2020
Matthew Ashley N, Zephyr Jacqueto, Nageswara Rao Desaboini, Henes Mina, Kamran Wasih, Kosovrasti Klajdi, Hedger Adam K, Lockbaum Gordon J, Timm Jennifer, Ali Akbar, Kurt Yilmaz Nese, Schiffer Celia A
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects millions of people worldwide, causing chronic liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver transplant. In the last several years, the advent of direct-acting antivirals, including NS3/4A protease inhibitors (PIs), has remarkably improved treatment outcomes of HCV-infected patients. However, selection of resistance-associated substitutions and...
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