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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vif is efficiently packaged into virions during productive but not chronic infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2003
Kao Sandra, Akari Hirofumi, Khan Mohammad A, Dettenhofer Markus, Yu Xiao-Fang, Strebel Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Packaging of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vif protein into virus particles is mediated through an interaction with viral genomic RNA and results in the association of Vif with the nucleoprotein complex. Despite the specificity of this process, calculations of the amount of Vif packaged have produced vastly different results. Here, we compared the efficiency of packaging of Vif into virions derived from...
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