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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Gary Wang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-7508 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Genome research 20070601 8
Integration of retroviral DNA into host cell DNA is a defining feature of retroviral replication. HIV integration is known to be favored in active transcription units, which promotes efficient transcription of the viral genes, but the molecular mechanisms responsible for targeting are not fully clarified. Here we used pyrosequencing to map 40,569 unique sites of HIV integration. Computational prediction of nucleosome positions in target DNA indicated that integration sites are periodically distr ...[more]