Parental LTRs Are Important in a Construct of a Stable and Efficient Replication-Competent Infectious Molecular Clone of HIV-1 CRF08_BC

Qiwei Zhang; Xiaomin Zhang; Hao Wu; Donald Seto; Hao-Jie Zhang; Zhiwei Chen; Chengsong Wan; Bo-Jian Zheng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031233

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Parental LTRs Are Important in a Construct of a Stable and Efficient Replication-Competent Infectious Molecular Clone of HIV-1 CRF08_BC

Qiwei Zhang ,

* E-mail: zhang.qiwei@yahoo.com (QZ); bzheng@hkucc.hku.hk (BJZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Xiaomin Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Hao Wu,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Donald Seto,

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America
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Hao-Jie Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Zhiwei Chen,

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, AIDS Institute, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Chengsong Wan,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Bo-Jian Zheng

* E-mail: zhang.qiwei@yahoo.com (QZ); bzheng@hkucc.hku.hk (BJZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Parental LTRs Are Important in a Construct of a Stable and Efficient Replication-Competent Infectious Molecular Clone of HIV-1 CRF08_BC

Qiwei Zhang,
Xiaomin Zhang,
Hao Wu,
Donald Seto,
Hao-Jie Zhang,
Zhiwei Chen,
Chengsong Wan,
Bo-Jian Zheng

Published: February 17, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031233

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