Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 preintegration complexes containing discontinuous plus strands are competent to integrate in vitro

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Despite intensive study, the mechanism by which many retroviruses complete reverse transcription has remained unclear. Most retroviruses and all lentiviruses fail to synthesize a full-length second strand of the viral cDNA (plus strand) efficiently in infected cells. For human immunodeficiency virus type 1, we find in synchronous infection experiments that full-length plus strands are rare (< 1% of products) at...

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