The Vif (viral infectivity factor) protein of human immunodeficiency virus–1 (HIV-1) is essential for the production of infectious virus by T lymphocytes and macrophages, the natural targets for HIV-1 infection. Vif is dispensable for HIV infection in certain transformed cell lines (“permissive
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