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Efficiency of Bridging-Sheet Recruitment Explains HIV-1 R5 Envelope Glycoprotein Sensitivity to Soluble CD4 and Macrophage Tropism
11 Oct 2012
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 R5 viruses vary extensively in their capacity to infect macrophages. R5 viruses that confer efficient infection of macrophages are able to exploit low levels of CD4 for infection and predominate in brain tissue, where macrophages are a major target for infection. HIV-1 R5 founder viruses that are transmitted were reported to be non-macrophage-tropic. Here, we investigated the sensitivities of...
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