Publication Date:
1991-07-05
Description:
Cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage are targets for human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection in vivo. However, many laboratory strains of HIV-1 that efficiently infect transformed T cell lines replicate poorly in macrophages. A 20-amino acid sequence from the macrophage-tropic BaL isolate of HIV-1 was sufficient to confer macrophage tropism on HTLV-IIIB, a T cell line--tropic isolate. This small sequence element is in the V3 loop, the envelope domain that is the principal neutralizing determinant of HIV-1. Thus, the V3 loop not only serves as a target of the host immune response but is also pivotal in determining HIV-1 tissue tropism.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hwang, S S -- Boyle, T J -- Lyerly, H K -- Cullen, B R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Jul 5;253(5015):71-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1905842" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cell Movement/*genetics
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Chimera
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Genes, env/physiology
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HIV-1/genetics/*physiology
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Haplorhini
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Proviruses
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Restriction Mapping
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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Viral Envelope Proteins/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
