Publication Date:
1987-12-11
Description:
A new human retrovirus was isolated from a continuous cell line derived from a patient with CD4+ Tac- cutaneous T cell lymphoma/leukemia. This virus is related to but distinct from human T cell leukemia/lymphoma virus types I and II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). With the use of a fragment of provirus cloned from one patient with T cell leukemia, closely related sequences were found in DNA of the cell line and of tumor cells from seven other patients with the same disease; these sequences were only distantly related to HTLV-I. The phenotype of the cells and the clinical course of the disease were clearly distinguishable from leukemia associated with HTLV-I. All patients and the wife of one patient showed a weak serological cross-reactivity with both HTLV-I and HIV-1 antigens. None of the patients proved to be at any apparent risk for HIV-1 infection. The name proposed for this virus is HTLV-V, and the date indicate that it may be a primary etiological factor in the major group of cutaneous T cell lymphomas/leukemias, including the sporadic lymphomas known as mycoses fungoides.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Manzari, V -- Gismondi, A -- Barillari, G -- Morrone, S -- Modesti, A -- Albonici, L -- De Marchis, L -- Fazio, V -- Gradilone, A -- Zani, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Dec 11;238(4833):1581-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Scienze Biochimiche II, Universita di Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2825353" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antigens, Viral/analysis
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Deltaretrovirus/classification/*isolation & purification/ultrastructure
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Female
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Humans
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Leukemia/*microbiology
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Lymphoma/*microbiology
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Male
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Microscopy, Electron
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T-Lymphocytes/cytology
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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