Article
Genetic Characterization of HIV Type 1 Tat Exon 1 from a Southern Indian Clinical Cohort: Identification of Unique Epidemiological Signature Residues
12 Jan 2012
Abstract excerpt
The trans-activator of transcription (Tat) of HIV-1 plays an important role in viral infection and pathogenesis. We examined the genetic characteristics of exon 1 of the tat gene derived from 102 seropositive subjects from southern India. Database-derived Indian (n=105) and global (n=413) HIV-1C sequences were also used for viral epidemiological signature pattern analysis in the Tat open reading frame (ORF). We...
