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HIV Protease

"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, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "HIV Protease" by people in this website by year, and whether "HIV Protease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 8 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2007 and 2012
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