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Cell Surface Downregulation of NK Cell Ligands by Patient-Derived HIV-1 Vpu and Nef Alleles.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 May 2016
Galaski Johanna, Ahmad Fareed, Tibroni Nadine, Pujol Francois M, Müller Birthe, Schmidt Reinhold E, Fackler Oliver T
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OBJECTIVE: HIV-1 Vpu and Nef proteins downregulate cell surface levels of natural killer (NK) cell ligands but functional consequences of individual downregulation events are unclear. We tested how well-conserved NK cell ligand downregulation is among Vpu and Nef variants isolated from chronic HIV patients. METHODS: Proviral vpu and nef sequences were amplified from 27 chronic HIV patients, subcloned, and tested...
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