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Identification of a preferred region for recombination and mutation in HIV-1 gag.
Virology - 1 Sept 2004
Dykes Carrie, Balakrishnan Mini, Planelles Vicente, Zhu Yonghong, Bambara Robert A, Demeter Lisa M
Abstract excerpt
We designed a cell culture-based system to test the hypothesis that recombination events during HIV-1 replication would be more frequent near the dimerization initiation sequence (DIS). A 459-bp region spanning the DIS through the 5'-end of gag was sequenced and analyzed to determine the frequency and distribution of crossover sites. We found a strong preference for recombination events occurring within a...
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