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Variability and Signatures of RNase-H Amino Acid Domain and Central Polypurine Tract of HIV-1 B-Subtype from Drug-Naive Individuals.
Current HIV research - 1 Jan 2015
Dimonte Salvatore, Babakir-Mina Muhammed
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BACKGROUND: The conversion to HIV-1 single-stranded RNA into double-stranded DNA for nuclear integration is an essential viral step in replication: this process is mediated by Reverse-Transcriptase (RT) and by central polypurine tract (cPPT), a domain where the plus-strand synthesis requires viral primers produced by RNase-H cleavage. Recent studies highlighted the need of investigating the role of RNase-H in RT...
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