Co-dependence of HTLV-1 p12 and p8 functions in virus persistence.

HTLV-1 orf-I is linked to immune evasion, viral replication and persistence. Examining the orf-I sequence of 160 HTLV-1-infected individuals; we found polymorphism of orf-I that alters the relative amounts of p12 and its cleavage product p8. Three groups were identified on the basis of p12 and p8 ex...

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Main Authors:	Cynthia A Pise-Masison, Maria Fernanda de Castro-Amarante, Yoshimi Enose-Akahata, R Cody Buchmann, Claudio Fenizia, Robyn Washington Parks, Dustin Edwards, Martina Fiocchi, Luiz Carlos Alcantara, Izabela Bialuk, Jhanelle Graham, Jean-Claude Walser, Katherine McKinnon, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, Antoine Gessain, David Venzon, Steven Jacobson, Genoveffa Franchini
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-11-01
Series:	PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1004454&type=printable
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