Article
Procedures for preparing biologically inactive, but immunogenic HIV-1 Tat protein (Tat toxoid) for human use.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Feb 2000
Le Buanec H, Bizzini B
Abstract excerpt
Extracellular Tat can exercise its deleterious effects on cells surrounding HIV-1-infected cells and allow spreading of virus. Extracellular Tat should be neutralized by anti-Tat vaccination using as an immunogen a functionally inactivated but immunogenic Tat preparation (Tat toxoid). In the present paper we show that native Tat can be inactivated without impairment of its immunogenicity by subjecting it to...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
