Article
Minimal requirements for the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 V3 domain to support the syncytium-inducing phenotype: analysis by single amino acid substitution.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 1992
De Jong J J, De Ronde A, Keulen W, Tersmette M, Goudsmit J
Abstract excerpt
The third variable domain (V3) of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 external envelope contains determinants of cell tropism, cytopathicity, and infectivity and elicits antibodies able to block infectivity in vitro and in vivo. Our study encompassed point-mutational analysis of HXB-2 viruses containing patient-derived V3 regions and expressing a non-syncytium-inducing, low-replicating phenotype in T-cell...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arginine
- Aspartic Acid
- Cell Fusion
- Genetic Variation
- Glutamine
- HIV Envelope Protein gp120
- HIV-1
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Serine
