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Simian immunodeficiency virus in which nef and U3 sequences do not overlap replicates efficiently in vitro and in vivo in rhesus macaques.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2001
Münch J, Adam N, Finze N, Stolte N, Stahl-Hennig C, Fuchs D, Ten Haaft P, Heeney J L, Kirchhoff F
Abstract excerpt
The nef genes of human immunodeficiency virus and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) overlap about 80% of the U3 region of the 3' long terminal repeat (LTR) and contain several essential cis-acting elements (here referred to as the TPI region): a T-rich region, the polypurine tract, and attachment (att) sequences required for integration. We inactivated the TPI region in the nef reading frame of the pathogenic...
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