HIV-1 and HIV-2 LTR nucleotide sequences: Assessment of the alignment by N-block presentation,"retroviral signatures" of overrepeated oligonucleotides, and a probable important role of scrambled stepwise duplications/deletions in molecular evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1231-1245

  Laprevotte, Ivan ^a   Pupin, Maude ^b   Coward, Eivind ^c   Didier, Gilles ^a   Terzian, Christophe ^d   Devauchelle, Claudine ^a   Hénaut, Alain ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

"retroviral signatures" of overrepeated oligonucleotides; Cryptic simplicity; HIV 1 and HIV 2 LTR nucleotide sequences; Multiple alignment; N block presentation; Scrambled stepwise duplications deletions

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0034932023     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003909     Document Type: Article

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