Retrovirology Commentary BioMed Central Open Access A historical reflection on the discovery of ppt

... physical association makes a fraction of the LAI virus highly infec- tious, and, in fact, this fraction can be neutralized with antibodies against M. pirum. As mycoplasmas are com- mon contaminents ... (HIV) was the causative agent of AIDS, and the only one at that. He also was also the first to provide a blood test to screen blood donors for HIV infection. The rapid impleme...

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... Cytoplasm Translation Translation Nxf1 Exportin-1 Gag Env A n m7G A n m7G A n m7G Nef Rev Tat A n m7G A n m7G A n m7G Nef Rev Tat Translation Translation Translation Sam68C Sam68C A -PABP1 AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA Tat mRNA Rev mRNA Nef mRNA B -80S ribosome ... multiple targets but a common mechanism? Alan Cochrane Address: Department of Molecular Genetics, University...

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... correspond to lyso- somes. A partial co-localization of Gag and Env appeared with the CD45 plasma membrane protein. Quantification of Gag co-localization with tetraspanins revealed that Gag was mainly ... which are referred to as tetraspanin- enriched microdomains (TEMs) [4-6]. Tetraspanins also play a role in the dissemination of pathogens that cause malaria and diphtheria and...

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... with Sequence Navigator Software. Statistical analysis SPSS statistical software version 11 was used for analyses. The correlation of data was assessed by Spearman's Rho nonparametric method. ... molecular clone. The pBLVTax106+293 was mutated in the Tax phosphoryla- tion sites[23], and pBLVA60V was mutated at the codon 60 of the GP30 transmembrane gene from alanine into va...

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... [10]. A3 B, A3 DE, A3 F, and A3 G contain two Zinc-binding motifs, while A3 A, A3 C, and A3 H contain only one. A3 B, A3 DE, A3 F, and A3 G inhibit HIV-1 replication to different degrees, whereas A3 A and A3 C ... CEM and CEM-SS has led to the discovery of APOBEC3G (A3 G) as one of the cellular targets of Vif [8]. A3 G belongs to a small group of proteins in the...

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... [5,72]. Conceivably, in comparison with the use of plasma viral load as a readout, cofilin activation would be a more direct reflection of CD4 dysfunction and may serve as an early marker for predicting ... infection, CD4 depletion is a hallmark and is one of the most powerful predictors of disease progres- sion. On the other hand, the level of viral replication, a...

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... Pharmacology of HIV Therapy. Lisbon 2006. 54. Shimura K, Kodama E, Sakagami Y, Matsuzaki Y, Watanabe W, Yama- taka K, Watanabe Y, Ohata Y, Doi S, Sato M, Kano M, Ikeda S, Mat- suoka M: Broad anti-retroviral ... integration: biochemical activities of HIV-1 integrase. Retrovirology 2008, 5:114. 17. Asante-Appiah E, Skalka AM: HIV-1 integrase: structural organi- zation, conformational chan...

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... A) ; Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander (Echeverr a, S; Fariñas, M.C; Saravia, G); Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza (Arazo, P; Pascual, A) ; Hospital Mutua, Terrasa (Dalmau, D; Jaén, A) ; ... Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca (Garc a, A; Julia, M; Riera, M); Hospital Univer- sitario de Alicante, Alicante (Gadea, C; Giner, L; Portilla, J); Hospital Uni- versitario de Salaman...

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... formation not only results as a consequence of the proteolytic cleav- age of p55 but also from substantial conformational changes and rearrangements of the p24 [1] which is con- nected to one another ... the chemically synthesized α-HGA further confirmed that the antiviral G-NH 2 -metabolite indeed was α-HGA. Conclusion: α-HGA has an unusually simple structure and a novel me...

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... (Fig. 1A and 1B). Cloning analysis recovered three clones of the 5' arm of the TAR miRNA (TAR-5p) and 14 clones of the 3' arm (TAR-3p). The 5' end of the TAR-5p miRNA appears to ... miRNA database. (B) Diagram showing the TAR hair- pin and the position of the mature miRNA within the TAR sequence. (C) Structure of the TAR-WT and truncated TAR-D...

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