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Structural basis of tetherin function.
Current HIV research - 1 Jun 2012
Weissenhorn Winfried, Miguet Nolwenn, Aschman Nick, Renesto Patricia, Usami Yoshiko, Gottlinger Heinrich G
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 employs its structural proteins to orchestrate assembly and budding at the plasma membrane of host cells, which depends on numerous cellular factors. Although cells evolved interferon inducible restriction factors such as tetherin that act as a first line of defense, enveloped viruses, including HIV-1, developed countermeasures in the form of tetherin antagonists such as Vpu that decrease the effect of...
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