Nef proteins from simian immunodeficiency virus-infected chimpanzees interact with p21-activated kinase 2 and modulate cell surface expression of various human receptors

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 6864-6874

  Kirchhoff, Frank ^a   Schindler, Michael ^a   Bailer, Nicola ^a   Renkema, G Herma ^d   Saksela, Kalle ^d   Knoop, Volker ^b   Müller Trutwin, Michaela C ^e   Santiago, Mario L ^f   Bibollet Ruche, Frederic ^f   Dittmar, Matthias T ^c   Heeney, Jonathan L ^g   Hahn, Beatrice H ^f   Münch, Jan ^a  

^a Verfahrensentwicklung Klinik Fü R Anä Sthesiologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^g BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NEF PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALLELE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 N GROUP; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 O GROUP; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS1 GROUP M SUBTYPE B; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD28; ANTIGENS, CD4; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCTS, NEF; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 2942687028     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.13.6864-6874.2004     Document Type: Article

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