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Abstract
Characterization of HIV-1 interactions with host cells is critical for cell biology studies of HIV-1. This unit describes a set of methods and protocols to perform quantitative assays of HIV-1 binding, internalization, infection, and cell-cell transmission. The protocols include: (1) generating infectious single-cycle or replication-competent HIV-1 stocks, (2) an HIV-1 binding and internalization assay, (3) HIV-1 infection of target cells and quantification of viral infection, and (4) HIV-1 cell-cell transmission assays. These functional assays provide useful tools to quantitatively study HIV-1 infection and viral transmission.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19499507 PMCID: PMC2692072 DOI: 10.1002/0471143030.cb2605s43
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Protoc Cell Biol ISSN: 1934-2616