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SUBMITTER: Kamada K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1622925 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kamada Kazuya K Igarashi Tatsuhiko T Martin Malcolm A MA Khamsri Boonruang B Hatcho Kazuki K Yamashita Tomoki T Fujita Mikako M Uchiyama Tsuneo T Adachi Akio A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061025 45
The narrow host range of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is caused in part by innate cellular factors such as apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme-catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) and TRIM5alpha, which restrict virus replication in monkey cells. Variant HIV-1 molecular clones containing both a 21-nucleotide simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) Gag CA element, corresponding to the HIV-1 cyclophilin A-binding site, and the entire SIV vif gene were constructed. Long-term passage ...[more]