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Acquisition of CD4-dependence by CD4-independent SIV passaged in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Retrovirology - 25 Jul 2012
Iyengar Sujatha, Schwartz David H
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BACKGROUND: Chemokine receptors (CKRs), the primordial receptors for primate lentiviruses, are sufficient to mediate virus-cell fusion. Several different fusogenic CKRs and related receptors provide a broad potential host cell range, presumably advantageous for viral spread within a given infecte...
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