A Truncated Form of Nef Selected during Pathogenic Reversion of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVmac239Δnef Increases Viral Replication
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T-cell receptor:CD3 down-regulation is a selected in vivo function of simian immunodeficiency virus Nef but is not sufficient for effective viral replication in rhesus macaques.
We investigated the function of severely truncated simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) Nef proteins (tNef) in vitro and in vivo. These variants emerged in rhesus monkeys infected with SIVmac239 containing a 152-bp deletion in the nef-unique region and have been suggested to enhance SIV virulence (E. T. Sawai, M. S. Hamza, M. Ye, K. E. Shaw, and P. A. Luciw, J. Virol. 74:2038-2045, 2000). We fou...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Virology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-538X,1098-5514
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.2.1245-1256.2003