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Sequence and Functional Variation in the HIV-1 Rev Regulatory Axis.
Current HIV research - 1 Jan 2020
Jackson Patrick E H, Dzhivhuho Godfrey, Rekosh David, Hammarskjold Marie-Louise
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BACKGROUND: To complete its replication cycle, HIV-1 requires the nucleocytoplasmic export of intron-containing viral mRNAs. This process is ordinarily restricted by the cell, but HIV overcomes the block by means of a viral protein, Rev, and an RNA secondary structure found in all unspliced and incompletely spliced viral mRNAs called the Rev Response Element (RRE). In vivo activity of the Rev-RRE axis requires...
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