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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 7, Pages 4103-4111Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03124-12
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- Canada Foundation for Innovation [29866]
- CIHR [257792]
- FRQS [24639]
- FRSQ Chercheur Boursier Junior 1 fellowship [24639]
- National Institutes of Health [AI24755, AI67854]
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
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HIV-1 entry involves the viral envelope glycoproteins (Env gps) and receptors on the target cell. Receptor binding channels the intrinsic high potential energy of Env into the force required to fuse the membranes of virus and target cell. For some HIV-1 strains, prolonged incubation on ice decreases Env potential energy and results in functional inactivation. By characterizing chimeras between two primary clade C HIV-1 strains that differ in sensitivities to cold, soluble CD4, and neutralizing antibodies, we found that these properties were largely determined by discrete elements within the gp120 variable regions V1V2 and V3.
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