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SUBMITTER: Joas S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893559 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Joas Simone S Parrish Erica H EH Gnanadurai Clement W CW Lump Edina E Stürzel Christina M CM Parrish Nicholas F NF Learn Gerald H GH Sauermann Ulrike U Neumann Berit B Rensing Kerstin Mätz KM Fuchs Dietmar D Billingsley James M JM Bosinger Steven E SE Silvestri Guido G Apetrei Cristian C Huot Nicolas N Garcia-Tellez Thalia T Müller-Trutwin Michaela M Hotter Dominik D Sauter Daniel D Stahl-Hennig Christiane C Hahn Beatrice H BH Kirchhoff Frank F
Nature communications 20180410 1
HIV-1 causes chronic inflammation and AIDS in humans, whereas related simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) replicate efficiently in their natural hosts without causing disease. It is currently unknown to what extent virus-specific properties are responsible for these different clinical outcomes. Here, we incorporate two putative HIV-1 virulence determinants, i.e., a Vpu protein that antagonizes tetherin and blocks NF-κB activation and a Nef protein that fails to suppress T cell activation via ...[more]