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Mutational analysis of HIV-1 long terminal repeats to explore the relative contribution of reverse transcriptase and RNA polymerase II to viral mutagenesis.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Oct 2002
O'Neil Patrick K, Sun Guoli, Yu Hong, Ron Yacov, Dougherty Joseph P, Preston Bradley D
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 evolves rapidly, which is thought to result from one or more error-prone steps in the virus life cycle. Because HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) does not possess 3'- to 5'-exonucleolytic proofreading activity and because RT has been shown to be error-prone in cell free systems, it should be an important contributor to the high rate of HIV-1 mutation. However, because RNA polymerase II (pol II) synthesizes...
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