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HIV-1 tolerates changes in A-count in a small segment of the pol gene.
Retrovirology - 5 Sept 2017
Klaver Bep, van der Velden Yme, van Hemert Formijn, van der Kuyl Antoinette C, Berkhout Ben
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BACKGROUND: The HIV-1 RNA genome has a biased nucleotide composition with a surplus of As. Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this striking phenomenon, but the A-count of the HIV-1 genome has thus far not been systematically manipulated. The reason for this reservation is the likelihood that known and unknown sequence motifs will be affected by such a massive mutational approach, thus resulting...
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