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Furthermore, by N-terminal sequence analysis it was found that in budded virions, SE8 was truncated downstream of a motif that is a furin cleavage consensus sequence in other viruses.
We assume that the mutant differs from the wild type in a surface protein necessary for cell entry, so that the fitness difference between two virions is solely determined by the surface proteins, and not by the particular genomes they carry.
However, infection is a Poisson process, and some cells will end up being infected by more virions than other cells.
Since CAP has a relatively high molecular weight (M w ~ 60,000; [ 2 ] ), its effect on HIV-1 virions would be expected to be confined to the virus surface, i.e. to the envelope glycoproteins gp120 and/or gp41.
As mentioned, recent studies have indeed shown that budding of progeny RS virions occurs primarily through the membrane microdomains [ 34 ] .