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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 75, 期 17, 页码 7966-7972出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.17.7966-7972.2001
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P51 RR000167, RR00167] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI36466] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM34940] Funding Source: Medline
Tat-specific cytotoxic T cells have previously been shown to exert positive Darwinian selection favoring amino acid replacements of an epitope of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). The region of the tat gene encoding this epitope falls within a region of overlap between the tat and vpr reading frames, and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions in the tat reading frame were found to occur disproportionately in such a way as to cause synonymous changes in the vpr reading frame. Comparison of published complete SIV genomes showed Tat to be the least conserved at the amino acid level of nine proteins encoded by the virus, while Vpr was one of the most conserved. Numerous parallel amino acid changes occurred within the Tat epitope independently in different monkeys, and purifying selection on the vpr reading frame, by limiting acceptable nonsynonymous substitutions in the tat reading frame, evidently has enhanced the probability of parallel evolution.
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