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Essential regions of the tRNA primer required for HIV-1 infectivity.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Dec 2000
Yu Q, Morrow C D
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), like all retroviruses, requires a cellular tRNA as a primer for initiation of reverse transcription. In a previous study, we demonstrated that an HIV-1 with a primer binding site complementary to yeast tRNA(Phe) (psHIV-Phe) was not infectious unless yeast tRNA(Phe) was supplied in trans. This unique in vivo complementation system has now been used to define the elements of the...
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