The bottleneck in AZT activation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 922-924

  Lavie, Arnon ^a   Schlichting, Ilme ^a   Vetter, Ingrid R ^a   Konrad, Manfred ^b   Reinstein, Jochen ^a   Goody, Roger S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HIV-1; NUCLEOSIDE-PHOSPHATE KINASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 0030859182     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0897-922     Document Type: Article

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