Article
T-cell receptor:CD3 down-regulation is a selected in vivo function of simian immunodeficiency virus Nef but is not sufficient for effective viral replication in rhesus macaques.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2002
Münch Jan, Janardhan Ajit, Stolte Nicole, Stahl-Hennig Christiane, Ten Haaft Peter, Heeney Jonathan L, Swigut Tomek, Kirchhoff Frank, Skowronski Jacek
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the function of severely truncated simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) Nef proteins (tNef) in vitro and in vivo. These variants emerged in rhesus monkeys infected with SIVmac239 containing a 152-bp deletion in the nef-unique region and have been suggested to enhance SIV virulence (E. T. Sawai, M. S. Hamza, M. Ye, K. E. Shaw, and P. A. Luciw, J. Virol. 74:2038-2045, 2000). We found that the tNef...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Down-Regulation
- Genes, nef
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Jurkat Cells
- Macaca mulatta
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell
