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Mutation of the catalytic domain of the foamy virus reverse transcriptase leads to loss of processivity and infectivity.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2002
Rinke Carolyn S, Boyer Paul L, Sullivan Mark D, Hughes Stephen H, Linial Maxine L
Abstract excerpt
Foamy virus (FV) replication is resistant to most nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors. In an attempt to create a 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine (3TC)-sensitive virus, the second residue in the highly conserved YXDD motif of simian foamy virus-chimpanzee (human isolate) [SFVcpz(...
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