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Long sequence duplications, repeats, and palindromes in HIV-1 gp120: length variation in V4 as the product of misalignment mechanism.
Virology - 30 Mar 2010
Guglietta Silvia, Pantaleo Giuseppe, Graziosi Cecilia
Abstract excerpt
We have shown that indels in gp120 V4 are associated to the presence of duplicated and palindromic sequences, suggesting that they may be produced by strand-slippage misalignment mechanism. Indels in V4 involved region-specific duplications 9 to 15 bp long, and repeats of various lengths, associated to trinucleotides AAT. No duplications were found in V3 and C3. The frequency of palindromic sequences in...
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