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Virion instability of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (RT) mutated in the protease cleavage site between RT p51 and the RT RNase H domain.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2005
Abram Michael E, Parniak Michael A
Abstract excerpt
Each of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pol-encoded enzymes, protease (PR), reverse transcriptase (RT), and integrase (IN), is active only as a dimer (or higher-order oligomer in the case of IN), but only RT comprises subunits of different masses. RT is a heterodimer of 66-kDa and 51-kDa subunits. The latter is formed by HIV PR-catalyzed cleavage of p66 during virion maturation, resulting in the...
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