| Literature DB >> 16775360 |
Jianling Zhuang1, Sayandip Mukherjee, Yacov Ron, Joseph P Dougherty.
Abstract
A significant difference in the recombination rates between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and the gammaretroviruses was previously reported, with the former being 10 to 100 times more recombinogenic. It is possible that preferential copackaging of homodimers in the case of gammaretroviruses, like murine leukemia virus (MLV), led to the underestimation of their rates of recombination. To reexamine the recombination rates for MLV, experiments were performed to control for nonrandom copackaging of viral RNA, and it was found that MLV and HIV-1 exhibit similar crossover rates. The implications for control of proviral ploidy and preferential recombination during minus-strand DNA synthesis are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16775360 PMCID: PMC1488982 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00273-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103