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SUBMITTER: Marcon L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC191367 | biostudies-other | 1997 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Marcon L L Choe H H Martin K A KA Farzan M M Ponath P D PD Wu L L Newman W W Gerard N N Gerard C C Sodroski J J
Journal of virology 19970301 3
We examined chemokine receptors for the ability to facilitate the infection of CD4-expressing cells by viruses containing the envelope glycoproteins of a pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus, SIVmac239. Expression of either human or simian C-C chemokine receptor CCR5 allowed the SIVmac239 envelope glycoproteins to mediate virus entry and cell-to-cell fusion. Thus, distantly related immunodeficiency viruses such as SIV and the primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 isolates can utilize C ...[more]