Article
HIV type 1 subtypes, coreceptor usage, and CCR5 polymorphism.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Nov 1997
Zhang L, Carruthers C D, He T, Huang Y, Cao Y, Wang G, Hahn B, Ho D D
Abstract excerpt
Identification of the chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 as the major coreceptors for HIV-1 entry has greatly assisted our understanding of HIV-1 pathogenesis, transmission, and tropism. However, most of our current knowledge on coreceptor usage comes from studies using HIV-1 strains or env genes...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Geography
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, CCR5
- Receptors, CXCR4
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Serotyping
