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Natural variation of HIV-1 group M integrase: implications for a new class of antiretroviral inhibitors.
Retrovirology - 7 Aug 2008
Rhee Soo-Yon, Liu Tommy F, Kiuchi Mark, Zioni Rafael, Gifford Robert J, Holmes Susan P, Shafer Robert W
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 integrase is the third enzymatic target of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. However, few data have been published on the distribution of naturally occurring amino acid variation in this enzyme. We therefore characterized the distribution of integrase variants among more than 1,800 published group M HIV-1 isolates from more than 1,500 integrase inhibitor (INI)-naïve individuals. Polymorphism rates equal or...
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