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Irene T Weber1, Mary Jo Waltman, Marat Mustyakimov, Matthew P Blakeley, David A Keen, Arun K Ghosh, Paul Langan, Andrey Y Kovalevsky.
Abstract
HIV-1 protease is an important target for the development of antiviral inhibitors to treat AIDS. A room-temperature joint X-ray/neutron structure of the protease in complex with clinical drug amprenavir has been determined at 2.0 Å resolution. The structure provides direct determination of hydrogen atom positions in the enzyme active site. Analysis of the enzyme-drug interactions suggests that some hydrogen bonds may be weaker than deduced from the non-hydrogen interatomic distances. This information may be valuable for the design of improved protease inhibitors.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23772563 PMCID: PMC3815997 DOI: 10.1021/jm400684f
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446