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Sequence of simian immunodeficiency virus and its relationship to the human immunodeficiency viruses
- Source :
- Nature. 328:539-543
- Publication Year :
- 1987
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1987.
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Abstract
- The characterization of HIV-1 (HTLV-III/LAV)1,2, the human retrovirus associated with AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) 3 has led to the identification of a group of related human and simian retroviruses which also infect CD4-bearing T lymphocytes. Simian T-lymphotropic virus type III (simian immodeficiency virus) from macaques (STLV-IIIMAC) induces symptoms similar to those of AIDS in infected macaques4,5, but isolates from African green monkeys (STLV-IIIAGM) 6 and mangabeys (STLV-IIMM) 7,8 appear to be non-pathogenic in these animals. A human virus immunologically related to STLV-IIIAGM (HTLV-IV), reported to have been isolated from healthy humans9, has been shown to be almost identical to STLV-IHAGM10,11, which has called into question the independent origin of these viruses11. Here we report the complete DNA sequence of STLV-IIIAGM and analyse its relationship with the genomes of the HTLV -IIIB strain of HIV-1, HIV-2ROD (previously called LAV-2) 12–15 and several ungulate lentiretroviruses. STLV-IIIAGM and HIV-2 are closely related, and more distantly related to HIV-1.
- Subjects :
- Genes, Viral
viruses
Retroviridae Proteins
Gene Products, gag
Cercopithecus
Simian
medicine.disease_cause
Virus
Retrovirus
Viral envelope
Chlorocebus aethiops
medicine
Animals
Amino Acid Sequence
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Multidisciplinary
Base Sequence
biology
Monkey Diseases
Nucleic acid sequence
HIV
virus diseases
Cercopithecidae
Simian immunodeficiency virus
biology.organism_classification
Virology
Retroviridae
Genes
Macaca
Human Virus
African Green Monkey
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14764687 and 00280836
- Volume :
- 328
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dc2b8b05f837a3f306ff05382f25d006