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BMS-955176 is a maturation inhibitorâthe drug prevents HIV from producing complex âpolyproteinsâ that are cut up by protease enzymes and assembled into new virus particles. If approved, BMS-955176 would be the first HIV medication to work by preventing virus assembly, maturation, and release from infected cells.
Some of the drugs used to treat HIV patients are competitive inhibitors of the HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme. Unfortunately, the high mutation rate of HIV means that the virus rapidly acquires mutations with amino acid changes that make them resistant to these competitive inhibitors.