REPLICATION-COMPETENT MOLECULAR CLONES OF PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS CLASS A AND CLASS B DERIVED FROM PIG AND HUMAN CELLS

摘要

The present invention relates to functional, replication-competent full-length proviral PERV-A and PERV-B clones isolated directly from the pig genome, i.e. "native" PERV and allows the comparison of proviral PERV sequences from different origins on the molecular, structural and cellular level.