University of Texas at Austin
Discovery of enzyme structure points way to creating less toxic anti-HIV drugs
Published in AIDS Weekly, October 26th, 2009
Their work was published this week in Cell.
"Many anti-HIV drugs are designed to stop the process of DNA replication," says Dr. Whitney Yin, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. "That turns out to be a great thing to do to help cure virus infections, because it stop the processes of viral replication.
"At the same time, however, when you target such a critical process in viruses, you may also target human enzymes that perform...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-10-26)
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