Fragment-based approaches to anti-HIV drug discovery: State of the art and future opportunities

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1271-1281

  Huang, Boshi ^a   Kang, Dongwei ^a   Zhan, Peng ^a   Liu, Xinyong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AIDS; drug design; fragment based drug design; HIV; medicinal chemistry; protease; reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

8 QUINOLINOL; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; VIRUS PROTEIN;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HIV INFECTIONS; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS; VIROLOGY;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, VIRAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84948569632     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: 1746045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2015.1083007     Document Type: Review

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