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Presence of Intact vpu and nef genes in nonpathogenic SHIV is essential for acquisition of pathogenicity of this virus by serial passage in macaques.
Virology - 30 Mar 2002
Mackay Glenn A, Niu Yafen, Liu Zhen Qian, Mukherjee Sampa, Li Zhuang, Adany Istvan, Buch Shilpa, Zhuge Wu, McClure Harold M, Narayan Opendra, Smith Marilyn S
Abstract excerpt
Use of the macaque model of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pathogenesis has shown that the accessory genes nef and vpu are important in the pathogenicity of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV). We examined the ability of two nonpathogenic SHIVs, SHIV(PPC) and DeltavpuDeltanefSHIV(PPC), to gain pathogenicity by rapid serial passage in macaques. In this study, each...
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