Virology

HIV-1 genetic recombination is more frequent than that of Moloney MLV

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 19th, 2003

HIV-1 genetic recombination occurs more frequently than in Moloney murine leukemia virus despite the viruses similar template switching rates, study results show.

"Retroviral recombinants result from template switching between copackaged viral genomes," explained A. Onafuwa and colleagues.

When these University of Michigan researchers measured "marker reassortment between coexpressed vectors ... during single replication cycles," they found HIV-1 recombination occurred six to seven times more frequently than murine leukemia virus (MLV) recombination.

The researchers reported that they also assayed "template switching ... using...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-05-19)

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