Ribeiro, ACSilva, AMESilva, AMESanta-Marta, MPombo, AMoniz-Pereira, JGoncalves, JBarahona, I2015-12-302015-12-302005JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY. - Vol. 79, n. 2 (JAN 2005), p. 823-8330022-538Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/21602Viral infectivity factor (Vif) is one of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) accessory proteins and is conserved in the primate lentivirus group. This protein is essential for viral replication in vivo and for productive infection of nonpermissive cellapplication/pdfengVirologyFunctional analysis of vif protein shows less restriction of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 by APOBEC3Gjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.2.823-833.2005