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. 1988 Sep;85(18):6612-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.18.6612.

Human immunodeficiency virus has an aspartic-type protease that can be inhibited by pepstatin A

S Seelmeier  1 , H Schmidt, V Turk, K von der Helm
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Human immunodeficiency virus has an aspartic-type protease that can be inhibited by pepstatin A

S Seelmeier et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1988 Sep.

Abstract

The protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) processes the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor by posttranslational cleavage. In this study we have demonstrated by site-specific mutagenesis (Asp----Thr) and by pepstatin A inhibition that the recombinant HIV protease is an aspartic-type protease. Furthermore, incubation of HIV-infected H9 cells with pepstatin A inhibited part of the intracellular processing of the HIV gag protein yet had no apparent toxicity on HIV-infected cells during 48 hr of incubation.

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