Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (3): 522.

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Prediction and Simulation on Interaction Between HIV-1 Envelope Protein gp 120 and Heparin

YAN Zuo-Wei1, HU Yuan-Dong2, LI Song2, JIANG Tao1   

  1. 1. Marine Drug and Food Institute, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
    2. Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing 100850, China
  • Received:2003-03-10 Online:2004-03-24 Published:2004-03-24

Abstract: Molecular simulation software are used to investigate the interaction between HIV-1 envelope protein gp 120 and heparin. Monosaccharide, disaccharide and trisaccharide of heparin are used as the probe molecules to make a global search around protein gp 120. After statistics analysis, we found the most favorable binding domain on gp 120 to heparin, and got two binding model which could be used to interpret the phenomenon that heparin could inhibit HIV-1 in vitro very well by docking heparin hexasaccharide to the binding domain.

Key words: gp 120, Heparin binding domain, Probe, Docking

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