A signature in HIV-1 envelope leader peptide associated with transition from acute to chronic infection impacts envelope processing and infectivity.

Mucosal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) results in a bottleneck in viral genetic diversity. Gnanakaran and colleagues used a computational strategy to identify signature amino acids at particular positions in Envelope that were associated either with transmitted sequences samp...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Asmal, Ina Hellmann, Weimin Liu, Brandon F Keele, Alan S Perelson, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, S Gnanakaran, Marcus Daniels, Barton F Haynes, Bette T Korber, Beatrice H Hahn, George M Shaw, Norman L Letvin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3158090?pdf=render