Effect of polypurine tract (PPT) mutations on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication: A virus with a completely randomized PPT retains low infectivity

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6859-6867

  Miles, Lesa R ^a   Agresta, Beth E ^b   Khan, Mahfuz B ^a   Tang, Shixing ^b,c   Levin, Judith G ^b   Powell, Michael D ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPURINE TRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, VIRAL; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; MUTATION; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 18744413268     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.11.6859-6867.2005     Document Type: Article

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