Structured Observations Reveal Slow HIV-1 CTL Escape

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-22

  Roberts, Hannah E ^a   Hurst, Jacob ^a,b   Robinson, Nicola ^a,c   Brown, Helen ^a,c   Flanagan, Peter ^a   Vass, Laura ^a   Fidler, Sarah ^d   Weber, Jonathan ^d   Babiker, Abdel ^e   Phillips, Rodney E ^a,b,c   McLean, Angela R ^b,f   Frater, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EPITOPE; GAG PROTEIN; NEF PROTEIN; NEF PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; POL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; GAG GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNE EVASION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEF GENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; SEROCONVERSION; STRUCTURAL GENE; SURVIVAL RATE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ADULT; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEF GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 84924361805     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004914     Document Type: Article

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