Blocking Semen-mediated enhancement of HIV infection by amyloid-binding small molecules

Future Virology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-186

  Kirchhoff, Frank ^a   Münch, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

amyloid; BTA EG6; HIV 1; infectivity enhancement; microbicide; semen; SEVI; sexual transmission; thioflavin T

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE PROSTATE ISOENZYME; AMINOQUINURIDE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; AMYLOID PROTEIN; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; BINDING PROTEIN; BTA EG6; CD209 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; HEPARIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SEMEN DERIVED ENHANCER OF VIRUS INFECTION PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; BIOTINYLATION; BLOCKING FACTOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPERM; TARGET CELL; UNSAFE SEX; UTERINE CERVIX; VIRION; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 79952599026     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fvl.10.91     Document Type: Article

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