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Specific Guanosines in the HIV-2 Leader RNA are Essential for Efficient Viral Genome Packaging.
Journal of molecular biology - 22 Jan 2021
Umunnakwe Chijioke N, Duchon Alice, Nikolaitchik Olga A, Rahman Sheikh Abdul, Liu Yang, Chen Jianbo, Tai Sheldon, Pathak Vinay K, Hu Wei-Shau
Abstract excerpt
HIV-2, a human pathogen that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is distinct from the more prevalent HIV-1 in several features including its evolutionary history and certain aspects of viral replication. Like other retroviruses, HIV-2 packages two copies of full-length viral RNA during virus assembly and efficient genome encapsidation is mediated by the viral protein Gag. We sought to define cis-acting...
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