| Literature DB >> 1433527 |
R Collman1, J W Balliet, S A Gregory, H Friedman, D L Kolson, N Nathanson, A Srinivasan.
Abstract
We isolated and molecularly cloned a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strain (89.6) which is unusual because it is both macrophage-tropic and extremely cytopathic in lymphocytes. Moreover, this is the first well-characterized infectious molecularly cloned macrophage-tropic HIV-1 strain derived from peripheral blood. HIV-1 89.6 differs markedly from other macrophage-tropic isolates within the envelope V3 region, which is important in determining cell tropism and cytopathicity. HIV-1 89.6 may thus represent a transitional isolate between noncytopathic macrophage-tropic viruses and cytopathic lymphocyte-tropic viruses.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1433527 PMCID: PMC240461
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103