Figure 1: Chemical structure of the peptidomimetic inhibitor BILC 821 of HCMV protease. The four unique molecules of HCMV protease in the crystal belong to two separate dimers. The four monomers ...

Biochemists study the structure, composition, and chemical reactions of substances in living systems and, in turn, their functions and ways to control them. Biochemistry emerged as a separate ...

The term “protease inhibitor” refers to a class of medications rather than to a single medication. Specifically, they are antiviral drugs. But unlike the many, more common antiviral drugs that ...