as assays for studying enzyme function in vitro. It also includes a section on recent approaches to drug discovery. Contents: The HIV life cycle; Reverse transcriptase; Ribonulease H; Integrase; Protease; Expression of gag, envelope and other HIV antigens using Bacculovirus; Envelope expression and purification; HIV envelope glyocoprotein/CD4 interactions - studies using recombinant vaccinia virus vectors; RNA binding assays for the regulatory proteins tat and rev; Cellular and cell-free assays for tat; Cellular assays for rev; DNA binding proteins interacting with the viral LTR; Nef; Vpu; Vif; Cellular assays for antiviral drugs; Inhibition of HIV by ribozymes and antisense oligonucleotides; Gene therapy approaches to the inhibition of HIV

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