Deficient uracil base excision repair leads to persistent dUMP in HIV proviruses during infection of monocytes and macrophages

• Mesfin Meshesha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Alexandre Esadze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Junru Cui,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Natela Churgulia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sushil Kumar Sahu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• James T. Stivers

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jstivers@jhmi.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2572-7807

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