The HIV-1 vpr protein acts as a negative regulator of apoptosis in a human lymphoblastoid T cell line: Possible implications for the pathogenesis of AIDS

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 403-413

  Conti, L ^a   Rainaldi, G ^a   Matarrese, P ^a   Varano, B ^a   Rivabene, R ^a   Columba, S ^a   Sato, A ^b   Belardelli, F ^a   Malorni, W ^a   Gessani, S ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL CYCLE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCTS, VPR; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JURKAT CELLS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032472866     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.3.403     Document Type: Article

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