Primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Nef alleles show major differences in pathogenicity in transgenic mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4677-4693

  Priceputu, Elena ^a   Hanna, Zaher ^a,b,c   Hu, Chunyan ^a   Simard, Marie Chantal ^a   Vincent, Patrick ^a   Wildum, Steffen ^d   Schindler, Michael ^d   Kirchhoff, Frank ^d   Jolicoeur, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEF PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE COURSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; KIDNEY; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, NEF; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34247575623     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02691-06     Document Type: Article

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