Conservation of Nef function across highly diverse lineages of SIVsmm

Retrovirology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schmökel, Jan ^a   Li, Hui ^b   Bailes, Elizabeth ^c   Schindler, Michael ^a,g   Silvestri, Guido ^d,e   Hahn, Beatrice H ^b   Apetrei, Cristian ^f   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NEF PROTEIN; NEF PROTEIN, SIV; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UPREGULATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MACACA; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HIV-2; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEF GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 65549084288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-36     Document Type: Article

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