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Sequence analysis of the dimerization initiation site of concordant and discordant viral variants superinfecting HIV type 1 patients.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Nov 2011
Mayr Luzia, Powell Rebecca, Kinge Thompson, Nyambi Phillipe N
Abstract excerpt
For HIV recombination to occur, the RNAs from two infecting strains within a cell must dimerize at the dimerization initiation site (DIS). We examined the sequence identity at the DIS (697-731 bp, Hxb2 numbering engine) in patients superinfected with concordant HIV-1 strains and compared them to those with discordant strains. Viral RNA in sequential plasma from four subjects superinfected with subtype-discordant...
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