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Effects of mutations on HIV-1 infectivity and neutralization involving the conserved NNNT amino acid sequence in the gp120 V3 loop.
FEBS letters - 2 Apr 2009
Polzer Svenja, Müller Harm, Schreiber Michael
Abstract excerpt
The N-glycan g15 within the HIV-1 gp120 V3 loop efficiently blocks antibodies to facilitate viral escape from humoral immune responses. However, we have isolated primary viruses all lacking the N-glycosylation site g15 due to mutations (NNNT>YRNA, HNTV, SIQK), which showed resistance to neutralizing antibodies present in autologous or heterologous HIV-1 positive sera. When introduced into the NL4-3 background,...
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