HIV-1 Tat amino acid residues that influence Tat-TAR binding affinity: a scoping review

PT Gotora, R van der Sluis, ME Williams - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023 - Springer
HIV-1 remains a global health concern and to date, nearly 38 million people are living with
HIV. The complexity of HIV-1 pathogenesis and its subsequent prevalence is influenced by …

HIV drug resistance in the era of contemporary antiretroviral therapy: A clinical perspective

A Carr, NE Mackie, R Paredes… - Antiviral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens have high barriers to the development
of drug resistance. However, resistance to earlier antiretrovirals and uncommon cases of …

Single-molecule epitranscriptomic analysis of full-length HIV-1 RNAs reveals functional roles of site-specific m6As

A Baek, GE Lee, S Golconda, A Rayhan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although the significance of chemical modifications on RNA is acknowledged, the
evolutionary benefits and specific roles in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) replication …

Prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations in proviral DNA in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, a retrospective study from 1995 to 2018

B Jaha, CD Schenkel, L Jörimann… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Genotypic resistance testing (GRT) is routinely performed upon diagnosis of
HIV-1 infection or during virological failure using plasma viral RNA. An alternative source for …

The influence of viral protein R amino acid substitutions on clinical outcomes in people living with HIV: a systematic review

LK Asia, E Jansen Van Vuren… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The HIV viral protein R (Vpr) is a multifunction protein involved in the
pathophysiology of HIV‐1. Recent evidence has suggested that Vpr amino acid substitutions …

Peering into avian influenza a (H5N8) for a framework towards pandemic preparedness

JY Yeo, SKE Gan - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
2014 marked the first emergence of avian influenza A (H5N8) in Jeonbuk Province, South
Korea, which then quickly spread worldwide. In the midst of the 2020–2021 H5N8 outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] Allostery and missense mutations as intermittently linked promising aspects of modern computational drug discovery

ÖT Bishop, TM Musyoka, V Barozi - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug research and development is a multidisciplinary field with its own successes. Yet,
given the complexity of the process, it also faces challenges over the long development …

ViMRT: a text-mining tool and search engine for automated virus mutation recognition

Y Tong, F Tan, H Huang, Z Zhang, H Zong, Y Xie… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Virus mutation is one of the most important research issues which plays a critical
role in disease progression and has prompted substantial scientific publications. Mutation …

On the linkage of thermodynamics and pathogenicity

P Pandey, S Ghimire, B Wu, E Alexov - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
This review outlines the effect of disease-causing mutations on proteins' thermodynamics.
Two major thermodynamics quantities, which are essential for structural integrity, the folding …

Allosteric modulation of SHP2: Quest from known to unknown

N Wang, S Zhu, D Lv, Y Wang… - Drug Development …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Src homology‐2 domain‐containing protein tyrosine phosphatase‐2 (SHP2) is a key
regulatory factor in the cell cycle and its activating mutations play an important role in the …