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Evidence for direct involvement of the capsid protein in HIV infection of nondividing cells.
PLoS pathogens - 26 Oct 2007
Yamashita Masahiro, Perez Omar, Hope Thomas J, Emerman Michael
Abstract excerpt
HIV and other lentiviruses can productively infect nondividing cells, whereas most other retroviruses, such as murine leukemia virus, require cell division for efficient infection. However, the determinants for this phenotype have been controversial. Here, we show that HIV-1 capsid (CA) is involved in facilitating HIV infection of nondividing cells because amino acid changes on CA severely disrupt the cell-cycle...
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