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APOBEC3G/F as one possible driving force for co-receptor switch of the human immunodeficiency virus-1.
Medical microbiology and immunology - 1 Feb 2012
Heger Eva, Thielen Alexander, Gilles Ramona, Obermeier Martin, Lengauer Thomas, Kaiser Rolf, Trapp Susanna
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 tropism highly correlates with the amino acid (aa) composition of the third hypervariable region (V3) of gp120. A shift towards more positively charged aa is seen when binding to CXCR4 compared with CCR5 (X4 vs. R5 strains), especially positions 11 and 25 (11/25-rule) predicting X4 viruses in the presence of positively charged residues. At nucleotide levels, negatively or uncharged...
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