Browsing South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) by Subject "Retroviruses"
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Detection of positive selection resulting from Nevirapine treatment in longitudinal HIV-1 reverse transcriptase sequences
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Nevirapine (NVP) is a cheap anti-retroviral drug used in poor countries worldwide, administered to pregnant women at the onset of labour to inhibit HIV enzyme reverse transcriptase. Viruses which may get transmitted to ... -
Molecular dynamic simulation studies of the South African HIV-1 Integrase subtype C protein to understand the structural impact of naturally occurring polymorphisms
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)The viral Integrase (IN) protein is an essential enzyme of all known retroviruses, including HIV-1. It is responsible for the insertion of viral DNA into the human genome. It is known that HIV-1 is highly diverse with a ...