An interactive Web site providing major histocompatibility ligand predictions: application to HIV research.

abstract：:Entry inhibitor is a new class of drugs that target the viral envelope protein. This region is variable; hence resistance to these drugs may be present before treatment. The aim of this study was to analyze the frequency of patients failing treatment with transcriptase reverse and protease inhibitors that would respon...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Alencar CS,Nishiya AS,Ferreira S,Giret MT,Diaz RS,Sabino EC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution structures have revealed major pockets in the MHC class II peptide binding groove within a region designated Pl-P9. The region can accommodate 9-mer peptides, consistent with the observation that minimal core helper T (Th) cell determinants are usually eight or nine residues in size. Here we describe m...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Lockey TD,Surman S,Brown S,Slobod KS,Coleclough C,Doherty PC,Hurwitz JL

更新日期：2002-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Maraviroc (MVC) is licensed in clinical practice for patients with R5 virus and virological failure; however, in anecdotal reports, dual/mixed viruses were also inhibited. We retrospectively evaluated the evolution of HIV-1 coreceptor tropism in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of an infected adol...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Cavarelli M,Mainetti L,Pignataro AR,Bigoloni A,Tolazzi M,Galli A,Nozza S,Castagna A,Sampaolo M,Boeri E,Scarlatti G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study seeks to analyze nearly full-length viral genomes for distinct genetic characteristics that are unique to local or regional strains and to identify regions that have high variability or are highly conserved. Nearly full length sequences of seven HIV-1 samples were obtained to ascertain the circulating subty...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Roye ME,Amarakoon II,Hamilton CL,Eyzaguirre LM,Figueroa P,Carr JK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covert vertical transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), the feline counterpart of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), was identified in kittens born to FIV-infected cats. DNA PCR detected FIV gag and env sequences in tissues from kittens nonviable at birth, and in viable kittens monitored postnat...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Allison RW,Hoover EA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation is critical for the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) life cycle and is the only step at which the virus amplifies the content of its genetic information. Numerous known and still unknown transcriptional factors, both host and viral, regulate HIV-1 gene expression and latency. This arti...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Victoriano AF,Okamoto T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is the major opportunistic infection of HIV-infected patients in developing countries and is associated with activation of the immune system and increased HIV-1 expression. The aim of this study was to explore the biological properties of HIV-1 isolates from patients with active TB. Ten HIV-1 subtype...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Morris L,Cilliers T,Bredell H,Phoswa M,Martin DJ

更新日期：2001-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence comparing treatment outcomes between adolescents and other age groups, particularly in resource-limited settings. A retrospective analysis of data from seven HIV clinics across urban Gauteng (n=5) and rural Mpumalanga (n=2), South Africa was conducted. The analysis compared HIV-positive antire...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Evans D,Menezes C,Mahomed K,Macdonald P,Untiedt S,Levin L,Jaffray I,Bhana N,Firnhaber C,Maskew M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of antiretroviral treatment (ART) has resulted in a dramatic reduction in AIDS-related morbidity and mortality. However, the emergence and spread of antiretroviral drug resistance (DR) threaten to negatively impact treatment regimens and compromise efforts to control the epidemic. It is recommended that sur...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Cheriro W,Kiptoo M,Kikuvi G,Mining S,Emonyi W,Songok E

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibody-positive human sera and sCD4, alone and in combination, for synergistic, additive, or antagonistic effects on blocking of HIV binding and infectivity. Data were analyzed by an application of the median effect principle derived from the law of mass action. ...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Kennedy MS,Orloff S,Ibegbu CC,Odell CD,Maddon PJ,McDougal JS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF), CRF33_01B, has been identified in Malaysia. Concurrently we found a unique recombinant form (URF), that is, the HIV-1 isolate 06MYKLD46, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is composed of B or a Thai variant of the B subtype (B') and CRF01_AE. Here, we determined the near full...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Lau KA,Wang B,Kamarulzaman A,Ng KP,Saksena NK

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection affects B cell function and is associated with increased immunoglobulin levels, including in HIV-infected pregnant women. It is unknown if maternal HIV infection affects immunoglobulins in their uninfected children. We investigated this using prospective longitudinal data from children born to HIV-infect...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Bunders M,Pembrey L,Kuijpers T,Newell ML

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study diverse areas of the autopsied brain of 12 HIV-infected patients with and without dementia were analyzed. All brain samples were obtained at autopsy through prior consent. Env C2-V5 region was PCR amplified and sequenced and compared between different brain regions within the same patient and also betwee...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Shah M,Smit TK,Morgello S,Tourtellotte W,Gelman B,Brew BJ,Saksena NK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant virus assay (RVA) is a method for assessing the susceptibility of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) plasma isolates to antiretroviral drugs. The RVA involves the production of viable virus in vitro by homologous recombination of RT-PCR products from plasma virus with a noninfectious reverse t...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Robinson LH,Myers RE,Snowden BW,Tisdale M,Blair ED

更新日期：2000-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-B HIV-1 viruses are predominant in developing countries where access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is progressively being intensified. It is important to obtain more data on the susceptibility of these viruses to available ARVs. CRF01_AE, CRF02_AG, and subtype C strains of HIV-1 obtained from untreated patients f...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Fleury HJ,Toni T,Lan NT,Hung PV,Deshpande A,Recordon-Pinson P,Boucher S,Lazaro E,Jauvin V,Lavignolle-Aurillac V,Lebel-Binay S,Cheret A,Masquelier B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates from six infected individuals less then 4 years of age were phenotyped for their syncytium-inducing (SI) ability in MT-2 cells. Three viral isolates that induced syncytia were detected. One SI isolate was from an individual who was in disease stage P2A,B,C and two S...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Forte SE,Byron KS,Sullivan JL,Somasundaran M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the emergence of HIV-1 variants in Barbados and the association with transmission modes, we analyzed phylogenetic relationships and genetic variability among HIV-1 strains collected in 1996 from 36 antiretroviral therapy-naive patients. Only subtype B variants were present in this sampling, based ...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Gittens MV,Roth WW,Roach T,Stringer HG Jr,Pieniazek D,Bond VC,Levett PN

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter-mediated gene expression is regulated by the viral Tat protein that relieves a block to viral transcription elongation after binding with a viral hairpin loop RNA structure called the trans-activation-responsive region (TAR). Tat protein significan...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Chande AG,Baba M,Mukhopadhyaya R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to HIV infection was examined in macrophages differentiated from human monocytes by macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) or granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The replication of macrophage-tropic human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1), which was determined by reverse...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Matsuda S,Akagawa K,Honda M,Yokota Y,Takebe Y,Takemori T

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of HIV-1 is well documented. Except for the HIV-1 isolate LAV-1BRU, no nucleic acid sequence of a European isolate of HIV-1 has been published to date. To further investigate the extent of the genetic variability and the evolution of HIV-1, we have isolated, cloned, and subsequently sequenced HIV...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Sauermann U,Schneider J,Mous J,Brunckhorst U,Schedel I,Jentsch KD,Hunsmann G

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 Nef (Nef) is a myristoylated protein that contributes to HIV disease pathogenesis. Nef has a modulatory effect on T cell receptor (TCR) signaling, resulting in up-regulation of interleukin-2 (IL-2) production in stimulated T cells. Recent studies have shown that efficient TCR signaling requires enhanced associat...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Djordjevic JT,Schibeci SD,Stewart GJ,Williamson P

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seroprevalence and the occurrence of an HIV-1 subtype was assessed in blood samples of the Tiriyo tribe. Antibody was found in 0.6% and the molecular analysis of the pro region detected the emergence of a subtype B for the first time in a native Indian tribe of the Amazon region of Brazil. ...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Machado LF,Vallinoto AC,Souza MI,Azevedo VN,Ishak MO,Ishak R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it is known that selection for specific HIV-1 drug resistance-associated mutations (DRM) occurs following ART failure, the patterns of resistance mutations, reduced susceptibility (RS), and replicative capacity (RC) that appear as the number of major NRTI mutations increases have been less well-studied. These ch...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Ross L,Parkin N,Lanier R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to shed light on the nature of the persistent reservoir of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), we investigated signs of recent evolution in the pool of proviral DNA in patients on successful HAART. Pro-viral DNA, corresponding to the C2-V3-C3 region of the HIV-1 env gene, was collected from PBMCs iso...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Mens H,Pedersen AG,Jørgensen LB,Hue S,Yang Y,Gerstoft J,Katzenstein TL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some genomic elements of the multicopy HERV-W endogenous retroviral family have been previously identified in databases. One of them, located on chromosome 7, contains a single complete open reading frame (ORF) putatively encoding an envelope protein. We have experimentally investigated the genomic complexity and codi...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Voisset C,Bouton O,Bedin F,Duret L,Mandrand B,Mallet F,Paranhos-Baccala G

更新日期：2000-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized two immune escape viruses (SHIV(KU-1/105w52) and SHIV(KU-1/105w98)) from a macaque immunized with DeltavpuDeltanef SHIV-4 and challenged with pathogenic SHIV(KU-1). This macaque developed neutralizing antibodies as well as virus-specific CTLs against the challenge virus. However, the two new viruses c...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Stipp HL,Kumar A,Narayan O

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Am important aspect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection is the regulation of its expression by nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) by redox-controlled signal transduction pathways. In this study, we demonstrate that selenium supplementation can effectively increase glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity i...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Sappey C,Legrand-Poels S,Best-Belpomme M,Favier A,Rentier B,Piette J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the impact of chronic viral liver disease (CVLD) on hospital admissions and death in HIV-infected patients since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy, all hospital charts, from January 1996 to December 2000, in a large HIV/AIDS reference center in Madrid were reviewed. Discharge diagnosis...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Martín-Carbonero L,Soriano V,Valencia E,García-Samaniego J,López M,González-Lahoz J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated memory cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTLm) responses to HIV-1 as a determinant of HIV-1 disease progression, in relation to plasma HIV-1 load and T lymphocyte numbers in a longitudinal study of 14 homosexual men with incident HIV-1 infection. Study participants were selected who exhibited failure of T cell h...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Rinaldo CR Jr,Gupta P,Huang XL,Fan Z,Mullins JI,Gange S,Farzadegan H,Shankarappa R,Muñoz A,Margolick JB

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-specific CD4+ T cell responses, in particular to the HIV envelope antigen gp120, are often undetectable in the peripheral blood of HIV-infected individuals. The failure to detect these cells poses a significant impediment to studying the T cell populations that are considered to be essential for controlling HIV in...

journal_title：AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors： Cohen S,Tuen M,Hioe CE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00