Conserved structural elements in the V3 crown of HIV-1 gp120

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 955-961

  Jiang, Xunqing ^a   Burke, Valicia ^a   Totrov, Maxim ^b   Williams, Constance ^a   Cardozo, Timothy ^a   Gorny, Miroslaw K ^a   Zolla Pazner, Susan ^a,c   Kong, Xiang Peng ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOLSOFT LLC   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; V3 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; V3 PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPITOPES; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 77955417928     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1861     Document Type: Article

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