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Effects of mutations in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag gene on RNA packaging and recombination.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2006
Nikolaitchik Olga, Rhodes Terence D, Ott David, Hu Wei-Shau
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) recombination occurs during reverse transcription when parts of the two co-packaged RNAs are used as templates for DNA synthesis. It was previously hypothesized that HIV-1 Gag polyproteins preferentially encapsidate the RNA from which they were translated (cis-packaging hypothesis). This hypothesis implies that mutants encoding Gag that cannot efficiently package viral...
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