Rev-dependent expression of three species of HIV-1 mRNAs (review).
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- Published online on: March 1, 1999 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.3.3.297
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Abstract
The expression of structural and accessory genes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) except for nef requires a viral regulatory protein Rev. Rev-dependency of the expression of structural (gag, pol and env), regulatory (tat and rev), and accessory genes (vif, vpr, vpu and nef) has been investigated by various systems, and it has been demonstrated that unspliced (encodes gag and pol) and singly-spliced (env-vpu, vif and vpr) viral mRNAs are differentially dependent on the function of Rev. In this review, the function of HIV-1 Rev in relation to these findings is discussed.