Article
Changes in the extracellular envelope glycoprotein of variants that evolve during the course of simian immunodeficiency virus SIVMne infection affect neutralizing antibody recognition, syncytium formation, and macrophage tropism but not replication, cytopathicity, or CCR-5 coreceptor recognition.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 1998
Rudensey L M, Kimata J T, Long E M, Chackerian B, Overbaugh J
Abstract excerpt
Simian immunodeficiency virus SIVMne, like human immunodeficiency virus, evolves from a macrophage-tropic, non-syncytium-inducing virus at early times in infection to a T-cell-tropic, syncytium-inducing, cytopathic virus population over the course of progression to AIDS. Because the viruses isola...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Cells, Cultured
- Chimera
- Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Macaca
- Macrophages
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neutralization Tests
