Memories of John N. Brady: scientist, mentor and friend.

abstract：:Viral protein U (Vpu) is a type 1 membrane-associated accessory protein that is unique to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and a subset of related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). The Vpu protein encoded by HIV-1 is associated with two primary functions during the viral life cycle. First, it contributes...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Dubé M,Bego MG,Paquay C,Cohen ÉA

更新日期：2010-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 and all retroviruses are related to retroelements of simpler organisms such as the yeast Ty elements. Recent work has suggested that the yeast retroelement Ty1 replicates via an unexpected RNA lariat intermediate in cDNA synthesis. The putative genomic RNA lariat intermediate is formed by a 2'-5' phosp...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Ye Y,De Leon J,Yokoyama N,Naidu Y,Camerini D

更新日期：2005-10-18 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：BACKGROUND:Mammalian cells harbour RNA quality control and degradative machineries such as nonsense-mediated mRNA decay that target cellular mRNAs for clearance from the cell to avoid aberrant gene expression. The role of the host mRNA decay pathways in macrophages in the context of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Rao S,Amorim R,Niu M,Breton Y,Tremblay MJ,Mouland AJ

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Upon HIV entry into target cells, viral cores are released and rearranged into reverse transcription complexes (RTCs), which support reverse transcription and also protect and transport viral cDNA to the site of integration. RTCs are composed of viral and cellular proteins that originate from both target and...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Santos S,Obukhov Y,Nekhai S,Bukrinsky M,Iordanskiy S

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating data suggest that immune effector functions mediated through the Fc portion of HIV-1-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) are a key component of HIV-1 protective immunity, affecting both disease progression and HIV-1 acquisition. Through studying Fc gamma receptor (FcγR) variants known to alter IgG F...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Lassaunière R,Musekiwa A,Gray GE,Kuhn L,Tiemessen CT

更新日期：2016-06-10 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：BACKGROUND:Several factors determine the risk of HIV mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), such as coinfections in placentas from HIV-1 positive mothers with other pathogens. Chagas' disease is one of the most endemic zoonoses in Latin America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The purpose of the study was to d...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Dolcini GL,Solana ME,Andreani G,Celentano AM,Parodi LM,Donato AM,Elissondo N,González Cappa SM,Giavedoni LD,Martínez Peralta L

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 integration results in genomic DNA gaps that are repaired by cellular DNA repair pathways. This step of the lentiviral life cycle remains poorly understood despite its crucial importance for successful replication. We and others reported that Ku70 protein of the non-homologous end joining pathway (NHEJ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Knyazhanskaya E,Anisenko A,Shadrina O,Kalinina A,Zatsepin T,Zalevsky A,Mazurov D,Gottikh M

更新日期：2019-11-06 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：BACKGROUND:LILRA3 is an immunostimulatory molecule which can conditionally induce the proliferation of cytotoxic cells. LILRA3 has a deletion genotype which is associated with multiple immune disorders. In this study, we wanted to analyze the regulation of LILRA3 and its significance in the context of HIV infection. R...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Low HZ,Ahrenstorf G,Pommerenke C,Habermann N,Schughart K,Ordóñez D,Stripecke R,Wilk E,Witte T

更新日期：2016-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long term infection with HIV-1, even in the context of therapy, leads to chronic health problems including an array of neurocognitive dysfunctions. The viral Tat protein has previously been implicated in neuropathogenesis through its effect on astrocytes. Tat has also been shown to inhibit the biogenesis of ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Sardo L,Vakil PR,Elbezanti W,El-Sayed A,Klase Z

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The viral transactivator of HTLV-I, Tax, has long been shown to target the earliest steps of transcription by forming quaternary complexes with sequence specific transcription factors and histone-modifying enzymes in the LTR of HTLV-I. However, a new study suggests that Tax preferentially transactivates the 21-bp repe...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： de la Fuente C,Kashanchi F

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The King's College London (KCL) Infectious Diseases BioBank opened in 2007 and collects peripheral venous blood (PVB) from individuals infected with pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PVBs are fractionated into plasmas, lymphocytes and DNA and are then frozen. All donations are from subjects who h...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Williams R,Mant C,Cason J

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International travel plays a role in the spread of HIV-1 across Europe. It is, however, not known whether international travel is more important for spread of the epidemic as compared to endogenous infections within single countries. In this study, phylogenetic associations among HIV of newly diagnosed patie...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Frentz D,Wensing AM,Albert J,Paraskevis D,Abecasis AB,Hamouda O,Jørgensen LB,Kücherer C,Struck D,Schmit JC,Åsjö B,Balotta C,Beshkov D,Camacho RJ,Clotet B,Coughlan S,De Wit S,Griskevicius A,Grossman Z,Horban A,Kolu

更新日期：2013-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elderly HIV-1 infected individuals progress to AIDS more frequently and rapidly than people becoming infected at a young age. To identify possible reasons for these differences in clinical progression, we performed comprehensive phenotypic analyses of CD4+ T cells from uninfected young and elderly individual...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Heigele A,Joas S,Regensburger K,Kirchhoff F

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ankyrins are cellular mediators of a number of essential protein-protein interactions. Unlike intrabodies, ankyrins are composed of highly structured repeat modules characterized by disulfide bridge-independent folding. Artificial ankyrin molecules, designed to target viral components, might act as intracell...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Nangola S,Urvoas A,Valerio-Lepiniec M,Khamaikawin W,Sakkhachornphop S,Hong SS,Boulanger P,Minard P,Tayapiwatana C

更新日期：2012-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HTLV-I associated adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) carries a dismal prognosis due to chemo-resistance and immuno-compromised micro-environment. The combination of zidovudine and interferon-alpha (IFN) significantly improved survival in ATL. Promising results were reported by adding arsenic trioxide to zi...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kchour G,Rezaee R,Farid R,Ghantous A,Rafatpanah H,Tarhini M,Kooshyar MM,El Hajj H,Berry F,Mortada M,Nasser R,Shirdel A,Dassouki Z,Ezzedine M,Rahimi H,Ghavamzadeh A,de Thé H,Hermine O,Mahmoudi M,Bazarbachi A

更新日期：2013-08-20 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: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:Crocodilians are thought to be hosts to a diverse and divergent complement of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) but a comprehensive investigation is yet to be performed. The recent sequencing of three crocodilian genomes provides an opportunity for a more detailed and accurate representation of the ERV diversit...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Chong AY,Kojima KK,Jurka J,Ray DA,Smit AF,Isberg SR,Gongora J

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are genetic elements with a retroviral origin that are integrated into vertebrate genomes. In felids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae), ERVs have been described mostly in the domestic cat, and only rarely in wild species. To gain insight into the origins and evolutionary dynamics ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Mata H,Gongora J,Eizirik E,Alves BM,Soares MA,Ravazzolo AP

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) composed by CDK9/CyclinT1 subunits is a dedicated co-factor of HIV transcriptional transactivator Tat protein. Transcription driven by the long terminal repeat (LTR) of HIV involves formation of a quaternary complex between P-TEFb, Tat and the TAR eleme...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Fraldi A,Varrone F,Napolitano G,Michels AA,Majello B,Bensaude O,Lania L

更新日期：2005-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein indirectly influences transcriptional activation, signal transduction, cell cycle control, and apoptosis. The function of Tax primarily relies on protein-protein interactions. We have previously shown that Tax upregulates the cell cycle checkpoint p...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kehn K,Deng L,de la Fuente C,Strouss K,Wu K,Maddukuri A,Baylor S,Rufner R,Pumfery A,Bottazzi ME,Kashanchi F

更新日期：2004-04-13 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：:Recent findings suggest that mammalian cells can use small non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) to regulate physiological viral infections. Here, we comment on several lines of evidence that support this concept. We discuss how viruses may in turn protect, suppress, evade, modulate, or adapt to the host cell's ncRNA regulatory sch...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Yeung ML,Benkirane M,Jeang KT

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the antiviral activity of human TRIM5alpha in more detail human derived indicator cell lines over expressing wild type human TRIM5alpha were generated and challenged with HIV-1 and HIV-2 viruses pseudotyped with HIV envelope proteins in comparison to VSV-G pseudotyped particles. HIV envelope p...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kaumanns P,Hagmann I,Dittmar MT

更新日期：2006-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 Vif interacts with the cellular core-binding factor β (CBFβ) and counteracts the protective roles of certain human APOBEC3 (A3) proteins by targeting them for proteasomal degradation. Previous studies have identified some amino acids important for Vif-CBFβ interactions, and recently a co-crystal struct...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Desimmie BA,Smith JL,Matsuo H,Hu WS,Pathak VK

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formation of a mature core is a crucial event for infectivity of retroviruses such as Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV). The process is triggered by proteolytic cleavage of the polyprotein precursor Gag, which releases matrix, capsid (CA), and nucleocapsid proteins. Once released, CA assembles to form a matu...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Obr M,Hadravová R,DoleŽal M,KříŽová I,Papoušková V,Zídek L,Hrabal R,Ruml T,Rumlová M

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) both in vitro and in vivo requires a member of the chemokine receptor family to act as a co-receptor for viral entry. However, it is presently unclear to what extent the interaction of HIV proteins with chemokine receptors generates intracellular sig...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Grainger DJ,Lever AM

更新日期：2005-04-04 00:00:00