Recent insights into HIV-1 Vif
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Francisco Navarro; Nathaniel R Landau
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The lentiviruses, including HIV-1 (but excluding equine infectious anemia virus), encode a viral infectivity factor (Vif) protein. Circumstantial evidence suggested that Vif acts to neutralize an inhibitory host defense mechanism, but progress in the field was limited because the identity of the cel