Extracellular addition of a domain of HIV-1 Vpr containing the amino acid sequence motif H(S/F)RIG causes cell membrane permeabilization and death

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1185-1192

  Macreadie, Ian G ^a   Arunagiri, Chinniah K ^a   Hewish, Dean R ^a   White, Jacinta F ^a   Azad, A A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Division of Biomolecular Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE PRODUCTS, VPR; HIV-1; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; YEASTS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0029880071     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02464.x     Document Type: Article

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