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Natural selection results in conservation of HIV-1 integrase activity despite sequence variability.
AIDS (London, England) - 4 May 2001
Reinke R, Steffen N R, Robinson W E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Integration of the HIV genome by integrase is absolutely required for productive infection. OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of natural selection on HIV integrase biology. DESIGN: To study the activities of HIV integrases from a limited panel of North American clinical isolates from HIV-infected patients and to compare these proteins with integrases from two laboratory adapted reference strains...
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