A quantitative assay for HIV DNA integration in vivo
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- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- on the-market
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 7 (5) , 631-634
- https://doi.org/10.1038/87979
Abstract
Early steps of infection by HIV-1 involve entry of the viral core into cells, reverse transcription to form the linear viral DNA, and integration of that DNA into a chromosome of the host. The unintegrated DNA can also follow non-productive pathways, in which it is circularized by recombination between DNA long-terminal repeats (LTRs), circularized by ligation of the DNA ends or degraded. Here we report quantitative methods that monitor formation of reverse transcription products, two-LTR circles and integrated proviruses. The integration assay employs a novel quantitative form of Alu-PCR that should be generally applicable to studies of integrating viruses and gene transfer vectors.Keywords
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