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Abstract
TIM proteins are known to promote viral entry into host cells. Unexpectedly, a recent study has shown that TIM proteins also inhibit HIV-1 release from the host cell by directly binding to phosphatidylserine exposed on the virus surface, providing details on a new role of TIM proteins in HIV replication.Entities:
Keywords: HIV; TIM; phosphatidylserine (PS)
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25438615 DOI： 10.1016/j.tim.2014.09.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN： 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079