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SUBMITTER: Yen PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4112485 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yen Po-Jen PJ Mefford Megan E ME Hoxie James A JA Williams Kenneth C KC Desrosiers Ronald C RC Gabuzda Dana D
Virology 20140508
Macrophages play an important role in HIV/SIV pathogenesis by serving as a reservoir for viral persistence in brain and other tissues. Infected macrophages have been detected in brain early after infection, but macrophage-tropic viruses are rarely isolated until late-stage infection. Little is known about early variants that establish persistent infection in brain. Here, we characterize a unique macrophage-tropic SIV envelope glycoprotein (Env) variant from two weeks post-infection in blood of a ...[more]