Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
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...precursor protein. The EMBO Journal, 16(16), 5113–5122. https://doi.org/10.1093/EMBOJ/16.16.5113. PubMed ...commonly called retrovirus) family — of which HIV is a member — may seem like an unlikely candidate to use as...Figure 1 to compare the genomes of these two family members.
Figure 1: Gamma-retrovirus genome (left... RT-deficient genome.
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