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Evidence of extended alternate coreceptor usage by HIV-1 clade C envelope obtained from an Indian patient.
Virus research - 1 Jan 2012
Gharu Lavina, Ringe Rajesh, Bhattacharya Jayanta
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 clade C tends to exclusively use CCR5 irrespective of disease stages. We previously reported envelopes (Envs) obtained from an Indian patient (VB105) that used CXCR4, CXCR6, CCR2b, CCR3, GPR15, and CX3CR1 as additional coreceptors besides CCR5 for entry. Here we show that the primary VB105 virus was able to replicate in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in presence of inhibitors that antagonizes...
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