provirus
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We looked for sequences that matched each HML-2 provirus in the genome and found 37 different HML-2 proviruses that were still active.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
Viruses insert their genomes into their hosts in the form of a provirus.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
Furthermore, each tissue sample also contained genetic material from at least one provirus that could still produce viral proteins.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
If this is so, it will be the first instance of such a provirus among higher animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
A provirus could be passed from one sheep to another by inoculation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even now, some of its proviruses within the human genome still retain the ability to make viral proteins.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
We looked for sequences that matched each HML-2 provirus in the genome and found 37 different HML-2 proviruses that were still active.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
All 54 tissue samples we analyzed had some evidence of activity of one or more of these proviruses.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
Independently, Lillian Cohn, an immunologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, made a similar finding: In people on ARVs for between 4 and 21 years, HIV proviruses were preferentially integrated in certain ZNF genes.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2022
In both kinds of regions, the DNA is more tightly packed than elsewhere in the human genome, making proviruses less accessible to factors that drive transcription.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2022
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