HIV Protease: Historical Perspective and Current Research
Viruses, 2021 The retroviral protease of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an excellent target for antiviral inhibitors for treating HIV/AIDS. Despite the efficacy of therapy, current efforts to control the disease are undermined by the growing threat posed by ...
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Drug Reprofiling to Identify Potential HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors
Molecules, 2023 The use of protease inhibitors in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) treatment is limited by adverse effects, including metabolic complications. To address these challenges, efforts are underway in the pursuit of more potent and less toxic HIV-1
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Ultra-fast analysis of plasma and intracellular levels of HIV protease inhibitors in children: a clinical application of MALDI mass spectrometry. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 HIV protease inhibitors must penetrate into cells to exert their action. Differences in the intracellular pharmacokinetics of these drugs may explain why some patients fail on therapy or suffer from drug toxicity.
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HIV protease inhibitors and obesity [PDF]
Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity, 2010 To review the current scientific literature and recent clinical trials on HIV protease inhibitors and their potential role in the pathogenesis of lipodystrophy and metabolic disorders.HIV protease inhibitor treatment may affect the normal stimulatory effect of insulin on glucose and fat storage.
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Rapid enzymatic test for phenotypic HIV protease drug resistance [PDF]
, 2003 A phenotypic resistance test based on recombinant expression of the active HIV protease in E. coli from patient blood samples was developed. The protease is purified in a rapid onestep procedure as active enzyme and tested for inhibition by five selected
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A modular system to evaluate the efficacy of protease inhibitors against HIV-2.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease is a homodimeric aspartyl protease that is crucial for the viral life-cycle, cleaving proviral polyproteins, hence creating mature protein components that are required for the formation of an infectious ...
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Universitas Scientiarum, 2019 The HIV-1 protease plays an essential role in the replication cycle of HIV-1; therefore there is a direct need to develop novel inhibitors of the HIV-1 protease, which can cease the viral replication.
Ammara Akhtar, Waqar Hussain, Nouman Rasool3
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Mass spectrometry captures off-target drug binding and provides mechanistic insights into the human metalloprotease ZMPSTE24. [PDF]
, 2016 Off-target binding of hydrophobic drugs can lead to unwanted side effects, either through specific or non-specific binding to unintended membrane protein targets.
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Proteochemometric modeling of HIV protease susceptibility
BMC Bioinformatics, 2008 Background A major obstacle in treatment of HIV is the ability of the virus to mutate rapidly into drug-resistant variants. A method for predicting the susceptibility of mutated HIV strains to antiviral agents would provide substantial clinical benefit ...
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Atazanavir and lopinavir profile in pregnant women with HIV: tolerability, activity and pregnancy outcomes in an observational national study [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Atazanavir and lopinavir represent the main HIV protease inhibitors recommended in pregnancy, but comparative data in pregnant women are limited. Methods: Women from a national observational study, exposed in pregnancy to either atazanavir or
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