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.