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Functional Segregation of Overlapping Genes in HIV.
Cell - 15 Dec 2016
Fernandes Jason D, Faust Tyler B, Strauli Nicolas B, Smith Cynthia, Crosby David C, Nakamura Robert L, Hernandez Ryan D, Frankel Alan D
Abstract excerpt
Overlapping genes pose an evolutionary dilemma as one DNA sequence evolves under the selection pressures of multiple proteins. Here, we perform systematic statistical and mutational analyses of the overlapping HIV-1 genes tat and rev and engineer exhaustive libraries of non-overlapped viruses to perform deep mutational scanning of each gene independently. We find a "segregated" organization in which overlapped...
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