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SUBMITTER: Qamar Saeed M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4272407 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qamar Saeed Muhammad M Dufour Noelle N Bartholmae Cynthia C Sieranska Urzula U Knopf Malaika M Thierry Eloïse E Thierry Sylvain S Delelis Olivier O Grandchamp Nicolas N Pilet Héloïse H Ravassard Philippe P Massonneau Julie J Pflumio Françoise F von Kalle Christof C Lachapelle François F Bemelmans Alexis-Pierre AP Schmidt Manfred M Serguera Ché C
Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids 20141202
HIV-1 derived vectors are among the most efficient for gene transduction in mammalian tissues. As the parent virus, they carry out vector genome insertion into the host cell chromatin. Consequently, their preferential integration in transcribed genes raises several conceptual and safety issues. To address part of these questions, HIV-derived vectors have been engineered to be nonintegrating. This was mainly achieved by mutating HIV-1 integrase at functional hotspots of the enzyme enabling the de ...[more]