I need an HIV replicons which lack genes necessary for virion release and spreading infection in cell culture but which can replicate intracellularly and may produce some of the HIV proteins.
I guess it depends on what you consider "replication". There are many constructs which have been created to enter a cell and get integrated into the host DNA and then produce some HIV proteins. But they all dead end with this single round and can't continue to replicate and evolve through many rounds within the cell.
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