HIV-1 Rev oligomerization is not obligatory in the presence of an extra basic domain.

abstract：:Susceptibility to HIV-1 and the clinical course after infection show a substantial heterogeneity between individuals. Part of this variability can be attributed to host genetic variation. Initial candidate gene studies have revealed interesting host factors that influence HIV infection, replication and pathogenesis. R...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： van Manen D,van 't Wout AB,Schuitemaker H

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of safe and effective combination antiretroviral therapies for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection over the past several decades has significantly reduced HIV-associated morbidity and mortality. Additionally, antiretroviral drugs have provided an effective means of protection against HIV trans...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Agarwal Y,Beatty C,Biradar S,Castronova I,Ho S,Melody K,Bility MT

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV viruses encode a set of accessory proteins, which are important determinants of virulence due to their ability to manipulate the host cell physiology for the benefit of the virus. Although these viral proteins are dispensable for viral growth in many in vitro cell culture systems, they influence the efficiency of ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Ayinde D,Maudet C,Transy C,Margottin-Goguet F

更新日期：2010-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-1 was the first described human retrovirus and was soon found to be associated with severe clinical diseases, including a devastating lymphoma/leukemia and other inflammatory diseases. Although HTLV-2 is not usually pathogenic, it is widely distributed among native Indian populations in Brazil, particularly in th...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Ishak R,de Oliveira Guimarães Ishak M,Vallinoto ACR

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon induced transmembrane proteins 1, 2 and 3 (IFITMs) belong to a family of highly related antiviral factors that have been shown to interfere with a large spectrum of viruses including Filoviruses, Coronaviruses, Influenza virus, Dengue virus and HIV-1. In all these cases, the reported mechanism of ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Tartour K,Appourchaux R,Gaillard J,Nguyen XN,Durand S,Turpin J,Beaumont E,Roch E,Berger G,Mahieux R,Brand D,Roingeard P,Cimarelli A

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 replication is critically dependent upon controlled processing of its RNA and the activities provided by its encoded regulatory factors Tat and Rev. A screen of small molecule modulators of RNA processing identified several which inhibited virus gene expression, affecting both relative abundance of spe...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Balachandran A,Wong R,Stoilov P,Pan S,Blencowe B,Cheung P,Harrigan PR,Cochrane A

更新日期：2017-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Few years after HTLV-1 identification and isolation in humans, STLV-1, its simian counterpart, was discovered. It then became clear that STLV-1 is present almost in all simian species. Subsequent molecular epidemiology studies demonstrated that, apart from HTLV-1 subtype A, all human subtypes have a simian homolog. As...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Jégado B,Kashanchi F,Dutartre H,Mahieux R

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retroviruses HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 have homologous genomic structures but differ significantly in pathogenicity. HTLV-1 is associated with Adult T cell Leukemia (ATL), whereas infection by HTLV-2 has no association with neoplasia. Transformation of T lymphocytes by HTLV-1 is linked to the capacity of its oncopro...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Turci M,Lodewick J,Di Gennaro G,Rinaldi AS,Marin O,Diani E,Sampaio C,Bex F,Bertazzoni U,Romanelli MG

更新日期：2012-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is the largest lymphoid organ infected by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). It serves as a viral reservoir and host-pathogen interface in infection. This study examined whether different parts of the gut and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) contain diffe...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： van Marle G,Church DL,Nunweiler KD,Cannon K,Wainberg MA,Gill MJ

更新日期：2010-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Friends and colleagues remember John N. Brady, Ph.D., Chief of the Virus Tumor Biology Section of the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, who died much too young at the age of 57 on April 27, 2009 of colon cancer. John grew up in Illinois and received his Ph.D. with Dr. Richard Consigli at Kansas State University studyin...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Pise-Masison CA,Marriott SJ

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mid-1990's, researchers hypothesized, based on new viral load data, that HIV-1 causes CD4+ T-cell depletion by direct cytopathic effect. New data from non-human primate studies has raised doubts about this model of HIV-1 pathogenesis. Despite having high levels of viremia, most SIV infections are well tolerated...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Smith SM

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 Nef is a multifunctional protein required for full pathogenicity of the virus. As Nef has no known enzymatic activity, it necessarily functions through protein-protein interaction interfaces. A critical Nef protein interaction interface is centered on its polyproline segment (P69VRPQVPLRP78) which cont...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kuo LS,Baugh LL,Denial SJ,Watkins RL,Liu M,Garcia JV,Foster JL

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuation of p53 activity appears to be a major step in Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax transformation. However, p53 genomic mutations are late and rather infrequent events in HTLV-1 induced Adult T cell leukemia (ATL). The paper by Zane et al. shows that a mediator of p53 activity, Wild-type p53-indu...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Gillet N,Carpentier A,Barez PY,Willems L

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combination anti-viral therapies have reduced treatment failure rates by requiring multiple specific mutations to be selected on the same viral genome to impart high-level drug resistance. To determine if the common protease inhibitor resistance mutation L90M is only selected once or repeatedly on different ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kapoor A,Shapiro B,Shafer RW,Shulman N,Rhee SY,Delwart EL

更新日期：2008-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eradication of HIV cannot be achieved with combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) because of the persistence of long-lived latently infected resting memory CD4(+) T cells. We previously reported that HIV latency could be established in resting CD4(+) T cells in the presence of the chemokine CCL19. To defi...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Saleh S,Lu HK,Evans V,Harisson D,Zhou J,Jaworowski A,Sallmann G,Cheong KY,Mota TM,Tennakoon S,Angelovich TA,Anderson J,Harman A,Cunningham A,Gray L,Churchill M,Mak J,Drummer H,Vatakis DN,Lewin SR,Cameron PU

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One facet of the complexity underlying the biology of HIV-1 resides not only in its limited number of viral proteins, but in the extensive repertoire of cellular proteins they interact with and their higher-order assembly. HIV-1 encodes the regulatory protein Tat (86-101aa), which is essential for HIV-1 repl...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Gautier VW,Gu L,O'Donoghue N,Pennington S,Sheehy N,Hall WW

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the most appropriate marker to measure reservoir size has been a great challenge for the HIV field. Quantitative viral outgrowth assay (QVOA), the reference standard to quantify the amount of replication-competent virus, has several limitations, as it is laborious, expensive, and unable to robust...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Pinzone MR,O'Doherty U

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse macrophage-like cell line RAW264.7, the most commonly used mouse macrophage cell line in medical research, was originally reported to be free of replication-competent murine leukemia virus (MuLV) despite its origin in a tumor induced by Abelson MuLV containing Moloney MuLV as helper virus. As currently avail...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Hartley JW,Evans LH,Green KY,Naghashfar Z,Macias AR,Zerfas PM,Ward JM

更新日期：2008-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously demonstrated that primary Th1Th17 cells are highly permissive to HIV-1, whereas Th1 cells are relatively resistant. Molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain unknown. RESULTS:Exposure to replication competent and single-round VSV-G pseudotyped HIV strains provide evidence that s...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Bernier A,Cleret-Buhot A,Zhang Y,Goulet JP,Monteiro P,Gosselin A,DaFonseca S,Wacleche VS,Jenabian MA,Routy JP,Tremblay C,Ancuta P

更新日期：2013-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, NK cells belong to the innate immune system and eliminate virus-infected cells through their germline-encoded receptors. However, NK cells were recently reported to possess memory-like functions that were predominantly provided by hepatic NK cells. Memory properties were mainly documented in contact hyp...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Littwitz-Salomon E,Nguyen T,Schimmer S,Dittmer U

更新日期：2018-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus (XMRV) was initially identified in prostate cancer (PCa) tissue, particularly in the prostatic stromal fibroblasts, of patients homozygous for the RNASEL R462Q mutation. A subsequent study reported XMRV antigens in malignant prostatic epithelium and associ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Sakuma T,Hué S,Squillace KA,Tonne JM,Blackburn PR,Ohmine S,Thatava T,Towers GJ,Ikeda Y

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although antiretroviral therapy is able to suppress HIV replication in infected patients, the virus persists and rebounds when treatment is stopped. In order to find a cure that can eradicate the latent reservoir, one must be able to quantify the persisting virus. Traditionally, HIV persistence studies have used real-...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Rutsaert S,Bosman K,Trypsteen W,Nijhuis M,Vandekerckhove L

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) are capable of inducing progressive spongiform motor neuron disease in susceptible mice upon infection of the central nervous system (CNS). The major CNS parenchymal target of these neurovirulent retroviruses (NVs) are the microglia, whose infection is largely coinciden...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Dimcheff DE,Volkert LG,Li Y,DeLucia AL,Lynch WP

更新日期：2006-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This editorial represents a plea to retrovirologists to attend the XVI International Conference on AIDS that will take place in Toronto, Canada between August 13-18, 2006. In short, it is vital that politicians and opinion leaders understand that basic scientists are no less committed to the worldwide battle against H...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Wainberg MA

更新日期：2006-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reverse transcription (RT) of HIV and SIV is initiated by the binding of the acceptor stem of tRNALys3 to the primer binding site (PBS) of the viral RNA genome. Previous studies have suggested that this tRNALys3 is not the only molecule capable of priming reverse transcription, and that at least one other ly...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Fennessey CM,Camus C,Immonen TT,Reid C,Maldarelli F,Lifson JD,Keele BF

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Vif plays a crucial role in the viral life cycle by antagonizing a host restriction factor APOBEC3G (A3G). Vif interacts with A3G and induces its polyubiquitination and subsequent degradation via the formation of active ubiquitin ligase (E3) complex with Cullin5-ElonginB...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Izumi T,Takaori-Kondo A,Shirakawa K,Higashitsuji H,Itoh K,Io K,Matsui M,Iwai K,Kondoh H,Sato T,Tomonaga M,Ikeda S,Akari H,Koyanagi Y,Fujita J,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2009-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) causes a contagious lung cancer in sheep and goats that can be transmitted by aerosols produced by infected animals. Virus entry into cells is initiated by binding of the viral envelope (Env) protein to a specific cell-surface receptor, Hyal2. Unlike almost all other retrov...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Miller AD,De Las Heras M,Yu J,Zhang F,Liu SL,Vaughan AE,Vaughan TL,Rosadio R,Rocca S,Palmieri G,Goedert JJ,Fujimoto J,Wistuba II

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage play multiple roles during the infection of primate lentiviruses serving as reservoirs for viral production or as vectors for viral spread to other cells and tissues. The human immunodeficiency type I virus is not only capable of establishing such complex and dynamic relations ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Cimarelli A

更新日期：2010-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 budding is directed primarily by two motifs in Gag p6 designated as late domain-1 and -2 that recruit ESCRT machinery by binding Tsg101 and Alix, respectively, and by poorly characterized determinants in the capsid (CA) domain. Here, we report that a conserved Gag p6 residue, S40, impacts budding media...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Watanabe SM,Chen MH,Khan M,Ehrlich L,Kemal KS,Weiser B,Shi B,Chen C,Powell M,Anastos K,Burger H,Carter CA

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been shown to limit anti-viral immunity during chronic retroviral infection and to restrict vaccine-induced T cell responses. The objective of the study was to assess whether a combinational therapy of nanoparticle-based therapeutic vaccination and concomitant transient ablati...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Knuschke T,Rotan O,Bayer W,Sokolova V,Hansen W,Sparwasser T,Dittmer U,Epple M,Buer J,Westendorf AM

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00