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Molecular mechanisms of HIV integration and therapeutic intervention
1 Feb 2007
Abstract excerpt
Retroviruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), are plus-sense RNA viruses that require reverse transcription and then DNA integration to establish a chromosomal provirus as an obligate replication intermediate. The viral enzyme reverse transcriptase synthesises linear double-stranded cDNA, which is the template for the viral enzyme integrase. Integrase catalyses two separate chemical...
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