Abstract: To understand the basis of drug resistance, particularly of the HIV-1
PR, three molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of HIV-1
PR mutant species,
G48V, complexed with saquinavir (SQV) in explicit aqueous solution with three protonation states, diprotonation on
Asp25 and
Asp25' (Di-pro) and monoprotonation on each
Asp residue (Mono-25 and Mono-25').