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SUBMITTER: Wood A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2885064 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wood Andrew A Webb Benjamin L J BLJ Bartosch Birke B Schaller Torsten T Takeuchi Yasuhiro Y Towers Greg J GJ
The Journal of general virology 20090301 Pt 3
The potential risk of cross-species transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) to humans has slowed the development of xenotransplantation, using pigs as organ donors. Here, we show that PERVs are insensitive to restriction by divergent TRIM5alpha molecules despite the fact that they strongly restrict a variety of divergent lentiviruses. We also show that the human PERV A/C recombinant clone 14/220 reverse transcribes with increased efficiency in human cells, leading to significantly ...[more]