Deletion of the vpu sequences prior to the env in a simian-human immunodeficiency virus results in enhanced Env precursor synthesis but is less pathogenic for pig-tailed macaques

Virology

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 252-261

  Stephens, Edward B ^a   McCormick, Coleen ^a   Pacyniak, Erik ^a   Griffin, Darcy ^a   Pinson, David M ^a   Sun, Francis ^b   Nothnick, Warren ^b   Wong, Scott W ^c   Gunderson, Robert ^c   Berman, Nancy E J ^a   Singh, Dinesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LYMPH NODE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MACACA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN-HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036059017     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1244     Document Type: Article

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