Abstract
The unliganded form of nitroxide spin-labeled HIV-1 protease and three different complexes with inhibitors were studied by pulse-EPR spectroscopy to determine "interflap" distance distributions in solution. In the unliganded enzyme, we observed a rather broad distribution with three maxima corresponding to three flap conformers; the principal form is a "semiopen/semiopen" conformer. In the complexes with inhibitors, the dominant conformer is an asymmetric "closed/semiopen" form. Moreover, the distance distribution profile is significantly varied among the different inhibitors, which mimic different species on the reaction coordinate for enzyme catalyzed proteolysis.
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