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Independent evolution of macrophage-tropism and increased charge between HIV-1 R5 envelopes present in brain and immune tissue

BACKGROUND: Transmitted HIV-1 clade B or C R5 viruses have been reported to infect macrophages inefficiently, while other studies have described R5 viruses in late disease with either an enhanced macrophage-tropism or carrying envelopes with an increased positive charge and fitness. In contrast, our...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Paz, O'Connell, Olivia, Lin, Rongheng, Sullivan, W Matthew, Bell, Jeanne, Simmonds, Peter, Clapham, Paul R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22420378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-9-20