HIV-1 proteaseHIV-1 protease

Hiv_protease HIV-1 Protease is a viral aspartic protease that responsible for maturation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

HIV-1 protease cleaves an human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) precursor proteins, such as cleaving the env protein,glycoprotein (GP) 160, into gp41 and gp120. Gp120 protrudes from the surface of HIV and binds to CD4+ T cells and gp41 embedded in the outer envelope help gp120 bind CD4+ T cells, and they both play a role in HIV's infection of CD4+ T cells. Therefore, HIV-1 protease make the virus have the ability to infect new cells by the cleave process. In other words, HIV-1 protease is responsible for maturation of the virion by cleaving proteins into their mature form.

Because the cleave step results in infectious viral particles, Drugs called protease inhibitors can interfere with this step of the viral life cycle and further prevent HIV infection progressing. Thus, many drug designs or much pharmaceutical research conduct by understanding the structure of HIV-1 protease active site and by inhibition of its activity disrupts HIV’s ability to replicate and infect additional cells.


PDB ID 1hsg

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1hsg, resolution 2.00Å ()
Ligands:
Gene: HIV-1 PROTEASE FROM THE NY5 ISOLATE (Human immunodeficiency virus 1)
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ReferenceReference

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  • Retroviral proteases, Ben M Dunn, Maureen M Goodenow, Alla Gustchina, and Alexander Wlodawer, Genome Biol. 2002; 3(4): reviews3006.1–reviews3006.7.
  • Crystal Structures of Highly Constrained Substrate and Hydrolysis Products Bound to HIV-1 Protease. Implications for the Catalytic Mechanism, Joel D. A. Tyndall, Leonard K. Pattenden, Robert C. Reid, Shu-Hong Hu, Dianne Alewood, Paul F. Alewood, Terry Walsh, David P. Fairlie and Jennifer L. Martin, Biochemistry, 2008, 47 (12), pp 3736–3744
  • Solution Structure of the Mature HIV-1 Protease Monomer: INSIGHT INTO THE TERTIARY FOLD AND STABILITY OF A PRECURSOR, Rieko Ishima, Dennis A. Torchia, Shannon M. Lynch, Angela M. Gronenborn, and John M. Louis, J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 278, Issue 44, 43311-43319, October 31, 2003
  • HIV-1 protease: mechanism and drug discovery, Ashraf Brik and Chi-Huey Wong, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 5 – 14

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/hivinf.htm

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/retro/2005gongishmail/HIV.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV