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Peptides Mimicking the β7/β8 Loop of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase p51 as "Hotspot-Targeted" Dimerization Inhibitors
Pedro A Sánchez-Murcia1, Sonia de Castro1, Carlos García-Aparicio1
1Instituto de Química Médica (IQM, CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, E-28006 Madrid, Spain.
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|May 22, 2020
Abstract:
A conformationally constrained short peptide designed to target a protein-protein interaction hotspot in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) disrupts p66-p51 interactions and paves the way to the development of novel RT dimerization inhibitors.

