HIV-1 mutates to adapt in fluxing environments

Publication date: Available online 30 August 2017
Source:Microbes and Infection
Author(s): Masako Nomaguchi, Naoya Doi, Takaaki Koma, Akio Adachi
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is specifically adapted for replication, persistence, transmission, and survival in humans. HIV-1 is highly mutable in nature, and well responds to a variety of environmental pressures by altering its genome sequences. In this review, we have described experimental evidence that demonstrates this phantasmagoric property of HIV-1.



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