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Increased mutation frequency of feline immunodeficiency virus lacking functional deoxyuridine-triphosphatase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Aug 1995
Lerner D L, Wagaman P C, Phillips T R, Prospero-Garcia O, Henriksen S J, Fox H S, Bloom F E, Elder J H
Abstract excerpt
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) encodes the enzyme deoxyuridine-triphosphatase (DU; EC 3.6.1.23) between the coding regions for reverse transcriptase and integrase in the pol gene. Here, we report the in vivo infection of cats with a DU- variant of the PPR strain of FIV and compare its growth properties and tissue distribution with those of wild-type FIV-PPR. The results reveal several important points: (i)...
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