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Sequence variations of Env signal peptide alleles in different clinical stages of HIV infection.
Peptides - 1 Sept 2011
da Silva Joaquim Xavier, Franco Octávio Luiz, Lemos Mikael Araújo Guimarães, Gondim Marcos Vinícius Pereira, Prosdocimi Francisco, Argañaraz Enrique Roberto
Abstract excerpt
The human immunodeficiency virus has been shown to increase its infectivity throughout the course of infection. This virus selection property has been associated with genome mutations and recombinations among virus variants, causing amino acid residue alterations in important viral proteins. In order to explore the contribution of Env signal peptide (Env-sp) to Env glycoprotein expression and its possible...
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