Mechanism of spontaneous degradation observed in the insertioncontaining HIV-1 Capsid proteins

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We previously reported that amino acid (AA) insertions at certainpositions of Gag Capsid proteins (CA) caused significant CA degradation, and such AAinsert-containing HIV-1 variants had significantly compromised infectivity andreplication capacity. We attempted to identify small compounds capable of binding to CAbased on our previous data. We calculated binding scores of more than 8 million compoundswith the putative target cavity on CA using virtual docking simulation and evaluatingtheir anti-HIV-1 activity using the cell-based assay. We could find 29 compounds whichcan inhibit replication of HIV-1 by these methods.