HIV-1 genetic recombination: Experimental approaches and observations

AIDS Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 195-212

  An, Wenfeng ^a   Telesnitsky, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; Recombination

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PUROMYCIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR; ZIDOVUDINE;

CHIMERA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS STRAIN;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036822475     PISSN: 11396121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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