Structural basis of HIV-1 resistance to AZT by excision.
Tu, X., Das, K., Han, Q., Bauman, J.D., Clark, A.D., Hou, X., Frenkel, Y.V., Gaffney, B.L., Jones, R.A., Boyer, P.L., Hughes, S.H., Sarafianos, S.G., Arnold, E.(2010) Nat Struct Mol Biol 17: 1202-1209
- PubMed: 20852643 
- DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1908
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3KLE, 3KLF, 3KLG, 3KLH, 3KLI - PubMed Abstract: 
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) develops resistance to 3'-azido-2',3'-deoxythymidine (AZT, zidovudine) by acquiring mutations in reverse transcriptase that enhance the ATP-mediated excision of AZT monophosphate from the 3' end of the primer. The excision reaction occurs at the dNTP-binding site, uses ATP as a pyrophosphate donor, unblocks the primer terminus and allows reverse transcriptase to continue viral DNA synthesis ...