Introduction: Flap+ is a multi-drug-resistant HIV-1
protease variant with a combination of flap and active site mutations (
L10I,
G48V,
I54V, and
V82A) that occur simultaneously in sequences of patients undergoing drug therapy (Figure 1).
Method: As described above, Flap+ contains additional mutations of
L10I,
G48V,
I54V, and
V82A, and was expressed and purified similar to that of the WT.
Method: The initial coordinates of the Flap+ variant were also from 1HHP and 2HB4, with the mutations (
L10I,
G48V,
I54V, and
V82A) modeled in using geomet