Article
R5 Macrophage-Tropic HIV-1 in the Male Genital Tract.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2015
Bednar Maria M, Hauser Blake M, Ping Li-Hua, Dukhovlinova Elena, Zhou Shuntai, Arrildt Kathryn T, Hoffman Irving F, Eron Joseph J, Cohen Myron S, Swanstrom Ronald
Abstract excerpt
The entry tropism of HIV-1 Env proteins from virus isolated from the blood and genital tract of five men with compartmentalized lineages was determined. The Env proteins isolated from the genital tract of subject C018 were macrophage-tropic proteins, while the remaining cloned env genes encoded R5 T cell-tropic proteins. The detection of a macrophage-tropic lineage of HIV-1 within the male genital tract strongly...
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