Genetic and functional characterization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 VprC variants from north India: Presence of unique recombinants with mosaic genomes from B, C and D subtypes within the open reading frame of Vpr

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2768-2776

  Bano, Aalia S ^a   Sood, Vikas ^a   Neogi, Ujjwal ^a   Goel, Nidhi ^b   Kuttiat, Vijesh Sreedhar ^b   Wanchu, Ajay ^b   Banerjea, Akhil C ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VPR PROTEIN; VPRC PROTEIN; VPR PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ADULT; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INDIA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TYPING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VPR GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 70350462731     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.011080-0     Document Type: Article

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