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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Genet. 2014;87:125–197. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800149-3.00003-2

Figure 3.8.

Figure 3.8

Episomal forms generated during the HIV infection. Episomal genomes of the HIV-1 appear in four major forms: linear episomes: precursors for integration and for the rest of the episomes; 2-LTR (double-LTR) and 1-LTR (single-LTR), are aberrant circular forms, generated by the DNA repair machinery of the host, or through the aberrant reverse transcription reaction; the autointegrative forms are product of self-integration mediated by the host repair machinery. LTR, long terminal repeat.