Conformational study of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine (HEPT)

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-267

  Lawtrakul, Luckhana ^a   Hannongbua, Supa ^b   Beyer, Anton ^c   Wolschann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Density functional theory; HEPT; HIV 1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors; Molecular calculations

Indexed keywords

1 [(2 HYDROXYETHOXY)METHYL] 6 (PHENYLTHIO)THYMINE; CARBON; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; COVALENT BOND; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0032982257     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.035     Document Type: Article

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