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SUBMITTER: Berger A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2852964 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berger André A Münk Carsten C Schweizer Matthias M Cichutek Klaus K Schüle Silke S Flory Egbert E
The Journal of biological chemistry 20100223 16
The accessory protein Vpx is encoded by lentiviruses of the human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) and the simian immunodeficiency SIVsm/SIVmac lineage. It is packaged into virions and is indispensable in early steps of monocyte infection. HIV-1, which does not encode Vpx, is not able to infect human monocytes, but Vpx enables infection with HIV-1. The underlying mechanism is not completely understood. In this work, we focus on Vpx-mediated intracellular postentry events as counteraction of ...[more]