Modeling the HIV-1 Intasome: A Prototype View of the Target of Integrase Inhibitors

The HIV-1 integrase enzyme is essential for integrating the viral DNA into the host chromosome. Infection is aborted in the absence of integration, making integrase an attractive antiviral target. Recently approved inhibitors of integrase bind tightly to integrase assembled in a nucleoprotein comple...

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Main Authors: Robert Craigie, Zhiqi Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-12-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/2/12/2777/