| Literature DB >> 23269844 |
Natalia L Komarova1, Daniela Anghelina, Igor Voznesensky, Benjamin Trinité, David N Levy, Dominik Wodarz.
Abstract
Human immunodeficiency virus can spread through target cells by transmission of cell-free virus or directly from cell-to-cell via formation of virological synapses. Although cell-to-cell transmission has been described as much more efficient than cell-free infection, the relative contribution of the two transmission pathways to virus growth during multiple rounds of replication remains poorly defined. Here, we fit a mathematical model to previously published and newly generated in vitro data, and determine that free-virus and synaptic transmission contribute approximately equally to the growth of the virus population.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23269844 PMCID: PMC3565528 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1049
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Lett ISSN: 1744-9561 Impact factor: 3.703