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Identification of Owl Monkey CD4 Receptors Broadly Compatible with Early-Stage HIV-1 Isolates.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2015
Meyerson Nicholas R, Sharma Amit, Wilkerson Gregory K, Overbaugh Julie, Sawyer Sara L
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Most HIV-1 variants isolated from early-stage human infections do not use nonhuman primate versions of the CD4 receptor for cellular entry, or they do so poorly. We and others have previously shown that CD4 has experienced strong natural selection over the course of primate speciation, but it is unclear whether this selection has influenced the functional characteristics of CD4 as an HIV-1 receptor....
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