Comparative molecular analysis of HTLV-I proviral DNA in HTLV-I infected members of a family with a discordant HTLV-I-associated myelopathy in monozygotic twins

Journal of NeuroVirology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-283

  Nakane, Shunya ^a   Shirabe, Susumu ^a   Moriuchi, Ryozo ^a   Mizokami, Akinari ^a   Furuya, Takafumi ^a   Nishiura, Yoshihiro ^a   Okazaki, Satoru ^a   Yoshizuka, Naoto ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Nakamura, Tatsufumi ^a   Katamine, Shigeru ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^b   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

HAM TSP; HLA; Proviral load; Tax sequence; Transactivation

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; TAX PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TRANSACTIVATION; TWIN DISCORDANCE; VIRUS STRAIN;

DNA VIRUSES; HTLV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; RAPHIA FRATER; SAMBUCUS NIGRA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0033858836     PISSN: 13550284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13550280009030753     Document Type: Article

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