- surface.
Lentiviruses contain 2
positive sense, single-strand RNAs that are
bound by
nucleocapsid proteins. As with all retroviruses,
lentiviruses have gag...
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family Retroviridae.
Lentiviruses have many
morphologies and
biological properties in common. Many
species are
infected by
lentiviruses,
which are characteristically...
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infection and
exhaustion of T-helper (CD4+) cells. FIV and HIV are both
lentiviruses. However,
humans cannot be
infected by FIV, nor can cats be infected...
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genes can be inserted, modified, or
deleted in
organisms using lentiviruses.
Lentiviruses are a
family of
viruses that are
responsible for
diseases like...
- type of
leukemia in humans, and
murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) in mice.
Lentiviruses (slow viruses)
include HIV-1 and HIV-2, the
cause of
acquired immune...
- Retroviridae.
Lentiviruses share many
morphological and
biological characteristics. Many
species of
mammals are
infected by
lentiviruses,
which are characteristically...
-
infectivity factor, or Vif, is an
accessory protein found in HIV and
other lentiviruses. Its role is to
disrupt the
antiviral activity of the
human enzyme APOBEC...
- Most of
these approaches utilize adeno-****ociated
viruses (AAVs) and
lentiviruses for
performing gene insertions, in vivo and ex vivo, respectively. AAVs...
- (Mn-SOD). Some
reverse transcriptases of many
retroviruses (although not
lentiviruses such as HIV)
contain manganese. Manganese-containing
polypeptides are...
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monkey hosts (e.g. the
sooty mangabey)
infected with species-specific
lentiviruses that have led to a lack of disease, no
decline in CD4 T-cell counts,...
