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Recombination Enhances HIV-1 Envelope Diversity by Facilitating the Survival of Latent Genomic Fragments in the Plasma Virus Population.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Dec 2015
Immonen Taina T, Conway Jessica M, Romero-Severson Ethan O, Perelson Alan S, Leitner Thomas
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 is subject to immune pressure exerted by the host, giving variants that escape the immune response an advantage. Virus released from activated latent cells competes against variants that have continually evolved and adapted to host immune pressure. Nevertheless, there is increasing evidence that virus displaying a signal of latency survives in patient plasma despite having reduced fitness due to long-term...
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