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Changes in simian immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase alleles that appear during infection of macaques enhance infectivity and replication in CD4+ T cells.
Virology - 5 Jan 2008
Biesinger Tasha, Yu Kimata Monica T, Kimata Jason T
Abstract excerpt
We previously showed that a slowly replicating, minimally pathogenic clone of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), SIVmneCl8, evolves increased ability to replicate in T cells with the onset of AIDS in pig-tailed macaques. Moreover, molecular clones derived from late stages of infection (SIVmne170 and SIVmne027) replicate to high levels in vivo compared to SIVmneCl8. Here, we investigated the role of rt mutations...
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