"HIV Protease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Enzyme of the human immunodeficiency virus that is required for post-translational cleavage of gag and gag-pol precursor polyproteins into functional products needed for viral assembly. HIV protease is an aspartic protease encoded by the amino terminus of the pol gene.
| Descriptor ID |
D016333
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.074.500.340 D08.811.277.656.300.048.340 D12.776.964.775.375.545.750
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| Concept/Terms |
HIV Protease- HIV Protease
- Protease, HIV
- p16 pol gene product, HIV
- p16 protease, HIV
- HIV p16 protease
- HIV Proteinase
- HTLV-III Protease
- HTLV III Protease
- Protease, HTLV-III
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