A common pharmacophoric footprint for AIDS vaccine design

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3723-3729

  Pisterer, Christoph ^a   Mihailescu, Dan ^a,b   Smith, Jeremy C ^a   Reed, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; COAT PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHARMACOPHORE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AIDS VACCINES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, CD4; ELECTRICITY; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 3142580856     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm031125s     Document Type: Article

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