Simian immunodeficiency virus containing mutations in N-terminal tyrosine residues and in the PxxP motif in Nef replicates efficiently in rhesus macaques

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4155-4164

  Carl, Silke ^a   Iafrate, A John ^b   Lang, Sabine M ^a   Stolte, Nicole ^c   Stahl Hennig, Christiane ^c   Mätz Rensing, Kerstin ^c   Fuchs, Dietmar ^d   Skowronski, Jacek ^b   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEF PROTEIN; PROLINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ENDOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; COS CELLS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE PRODUCTS, NEF; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MUTAGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; TYROSINE; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033995168     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.9.4155-4164.2000     Document Type: Article

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