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. 2012 Jan 19;8(1):e1002359. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002359

Figure 5. Molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 resistance development against AZT by ATP-mediated excision.

Figure 5

Potential mechanisms for resistance development against AZT through increasing its excision rate Inline graphic via an ATP-mediated mechanism (see eq. (21)). We calculated residual DNA-dependent polymerization of a Poly-T sequence in unstimulated Inline graphic T-cells using eq. (19) with parameters from Tables 1, S1 and S3 (supplementary material). The solid black line shows residual DNA polymerization Inline graphic in the wild type virus, whereas the dotted red line and the dashed blue line refer to residual polymerization if Inline graphic and Inline graphic were decreased- and increased 100-fold respectively.