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Lopinivir efficacy decreases following cotransfection of wild-type HIV clones

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 29th, 2004

The efficacy of lopinivir decreases following cotransfection of wild-type HIV clones.

"The impact of cotransfection of mixtures of mutant and wild type (WT) virus on the observed phenotype and replication capacity (RC) in a single-cycle human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) phenotypic assay has been investigated by cotransfecting mutant HIV clones expressing the firefly luciferase expression gene with a WT clone expressing Renilla luciferase.

"Four mutant constructs with different genotypes displayed <1% RC when transfected alone. Cotransfection of as little as 9% of the WT clone resulted in an 18- to 33-fold increase in the RC of the mutant clones,"...

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