Mechanism by which phosphonoformic acid resistance mutations restore 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) sensitivity to AZT-resistant HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
Arion D, Sluis-Cremer N, Parniak MA.
Arion D, et al.
J Biol Chem. 2000 Mar 31;275(13):9251-5. doi: 10.1074/jbc.275.13.9251.
J Biol Chem. 2000.
PMID: 10734063
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We previously showed that pyrophosphorolytic removal of chain-terminating AZT is the primary mechanism of the AZT resistance phenotype (Arion, D., Kaushik, N., McCormick, S., Borkow, G., and Parniak, M. A. (1998) Biochemistry 37, 15908-15917). ...
We previously showed that pyrophosphorolytic removal of chain-terminating AZT is the primary mechanism of the AZT resistance phenotype (A …