Protein conformational dynamics in the mechanism of HIV-1 protease catalysis.
Torbeev, V.Y., Raghuraman, H., Hamelberg, D., Tonelli, M., Westler, W.M., Perozo, E., Kent, S.B.(2011) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108: 20982-20987
- PubMed: 22158985 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111202108
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3FSM, 3HAU, 3HAW, 3HBO, 3HDK, 3HLO, 3IAW, 3KA2, 3NWQ, 3NWX, 3NXE, 3NXN, 3NYG - PubMed Abstract: 
We have used chemical protein synthesis and advanced physical methods to probe dynamics-function correlations for the HIV-1 protease, an enzyme that has received considerable attention as a target for the treatment of AIDS. Chemical synthesis was used to prepare a series of unique analogues of the HIV-1 protease in which the flexibility of the "flap" structures (residues 37-61 in each monomer of the homodimeric protein molecule) was systematically varied ...