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Nucleotide substitution patterns can predict the requirements for drug-resistance of HIV-1 proteins.
Antiviral research - 1 Jun 1996
Keulen W, Boucher C, Berkhout B
Abstract excerpt
The enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a fundamental role in the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and several antiviral agents that target this key enzyme have been developed. Unfortunately, treatment of patients with RT inhibitors results in the appearance of drug-resistant variants with specific mutations in the RT protein. We hypothesized that if "difficult' resistance...
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