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Yunji W Davenport1, Anthony P West1, Pamela J Bjorkman2.
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HIV-2 is a nonpandemic form of the virus causing AIDS, and the majority of HIV-2-infected patients exhibit long-term nonprogression. The HIV-1 and HIV-2 envelope glycoproteins, the sole targets of neutralizing antibodies, share 30 to 40% identity. As a first step in understanding the reduced pathogenicity of HIV-2, we solved a 3.0-Å structure of an HIV-2 gp120 bound to the host receptor CD4, which reveals structural similarity to HIV-1 gp120 despite divergence in amino acid sequence.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26608312 PMCID: PMC4733984 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02678-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103