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Assisted evolution enables HIV-1 to overcome a high TRIM5α-imposed genetic barrier to rhesus macaque tropism.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2013
Soll Steven J, Wilson Sam J, Kutluay Sebla B, Hatziioannou Theodora, Bieniasz Paul D
Abstract excerpt
Diversification of antiretroviral factors during host evolution has erected formidable barriers to cross-species retrovirus transmission. This phenomenon likely protects humans from infection by many modern retroviruses, but it has also impaired the development of primate models of HIV-1 infection. Indeed, rhesus macaques are resistant to HIV-1, in part due to restriction imposed by the TRIM5α protein (rhTRIM5α)....
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