HIV Protease

**Definition:** Enzyme of the human immunodeficiency virus that is required for post-translational cleavage of gag and gag-pol precursor polyproteins into functional products needed for viral assembly. HIV protease is an aspartic protease encoded by the amino terminus of the pol gene.

**Tree numbers:** - D08.811.277.656.074.500.340 - D08.811.277.656.300.048.340 - D08.811.277.656.979.500 - D12.776.964.775.375.545.750 - D12.776.964.900.500.625

**Synonyms:** - HIV Proteinase - HTLV-III Protease - p16 protease, HIV - p16 pol gene product, HIV