Article
Natural variation in the amino acid sequence around the HIV type 1 glycoprotein 160 cleavage site and its effect on cleavability, subunit association, and membrane fusion.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Sept 2000
Adams O, Schaal H, Scheid A
Abstract excerpt
To assess the natural variation of the structure of the cleavage site as well as the N-terminal region of gp41 for the cytopathogenicity of HIV-1, syncytium-inducing (SI) and non-syncytium-inducing (NSI) virus isolates were obtained from HIV-1-infected patients. In addition, the coreceptor usage of the isolates was determined by infection of primary macrophages and PM-1 cells. DNA sequences encoding the...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Genetic Variation
- Giant Cells
- HIV Envelope Protein gp120
- HIV Envelope Protein gp160
- HIV Envelope Protein gp41
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear