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Partial rescue of the Vif-negative phenotype of mutant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 strains from nonpermissive cells by intravirion reverse transcription.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2000
Dornadula G, Yang S, Pomerantz R J, Zhang H
Abstract excerpt
Virion infectivity factor (Vif) is a protein encoded by human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) and is essential for viral replication. It appears that Vif functions in the virus-producing cells and affects viral assembly. Viruses with defects in the vif gene (vif-) generated from the "nonpermissive cells" are not able to complete reverse transcription. In previous studies, it was demonstrated that defects in...
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