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Protein WISDOM: A Workbench for In silico De novo Design of BioMolecules
Published on: July 25, 2013
Design of highly potent HIV fusion inhibitors based on artificial peptide sequences
Weiguo Shi1, Lifeng Cai, Lu Lu
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, 27 Taiping Rd, Haidian District, Beijing 100850, China.
Abstract:
Specific interactions were introduced between an artificial heptad repeat peptide template and HIV-1 gp41 for fusion inhibitor design, using a structure based rational design strategy. The designed peptides are nonhomologous with naturally occurring peptide and protein sequences, specifically interact with HIV-1 gp41, and show strong anti-HIV activity.

