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Anticipating and blocking HIV-1 escape by second generation antiviral shRNAs.
Retrovirology - 8 Jun 2010
Schopman Nick C T, ter Brake Olivier, Berkhout Ben
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BACKGROUND: RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionary conserved gene silencing mechanism that mediates the sequence-specific breakdown of target mRNAs. RNAi can be used to inhibit HIV-1 replication by targeting the viral RNA genome. However, the error-prone replication machinery of HIV-1 can gen...
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