Publication Date:
1995-11-24
Description:
Immune evasion by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is unexplained but may involve the mutation of viral antigens. When cytotoxic T lymphocytes engaged CD4-positive cells that were acutely infected with HIV bearing natural variant epitopes in reverse transcriptase, substantial inhibition of specific antiviral lysis was observed. Mutant viruses capable of these transactive effects could facilitate the persistence of a broad range of HIV variants in the face of an active and specific immune response.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meier, U C -- Klenerman, P -- Griffin, P -- James, W -- Koppe, B -- Larder, B -- McMichael, A -- Phillips, R -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Nov 24;270(5240):1360-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7481824" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Antigenic Variation
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Base Sequence
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology/virology
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Cell Line
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*Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
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Epitopes/genetics
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HIV Antigens/genetics/*immunology
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HIV Reverse Transcriptase
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HIV-1/enzymology/genetics/*immunology
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HLA-B8 Antigen/immunology
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Humans
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*Immune Tolerance
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Molecular Sequence Data
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RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/genetics/*immunology
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Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
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T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology
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
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