Article
Diversity of V3 region sequences of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 from the central African Republic.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Oct 1993
Murphy E, Korber B, Georges-Courbot M C, You B, Pinter A, Cook D, Kieny M P, Georges A, Mathiot C, Barré-Sinoussi F
Abstract excerpt
Nucleotide sequences of the central portion of gp120, including the third hypervariable (V3) loop, were obtained from lymphocytes cocultivated with SupT1 cells from 29 AIDS patients in Bangui, Central African Republic. These sequences displayed significantly greater diversity (average distance, 2...
Topics
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Central African Republic
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- HIV Envelope Protein gp120
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid