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Most retroviral recombinations occur during minus-strand DNA synthesis.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2000
Zhang J, Tang L Y, Li T, Ma Y, Sapp C M
Abstract excerpt
Retroviral RNA molecules are plus, or sense in polarity, equivalent to mRNA. During reverse transcription, the first strand of the DNA molecule synthesized is minus-strand DNA. After the minus strand is polymerized, the plus-strand DNA is synthesized using the minus-strand DNA as the template. In this study, a helper cell line that contains two proviruses with two different mutated gfp genes was constructed....
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