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Volume 5;  2008
Commentaries
Socioeconomic status (SES) as a determinant of adherence to treatment in HIV infected patients: a systematic review of the literature
Matthew E Falagas, Efstathia A Zarkadoulia, Paraskevi A Pliatsika, and George Panos
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 13. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-13.
PMCID: PMC2267456
Hitting HIV where it hides
Andrew I Dayton
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 15. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-15.
PMCID: PMC2253557
RNA interference: a multifaceted innate antiviral defense
Ajit Kumar
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 17. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-17.
PMCID: PMC2259359
Turning up the volume on mutational pressure: Is more of a good thing always better? (A case study of HIV-1 Vif and APOBEC3)
Satish K Pillai, Joseph K Wong, and Jason D Barbour
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 26. Published online 2008 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-26.
PMCID: PMC2323022
APOBEC3G encapsidation into HIV-1 virions: which RNA is it?
Klaus Strebel and Mohammad A Khan
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 55. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-55.
PMCID: PMC2491656
The aftermath of the Merck's HIV vaccine trial
Enrico Iaccino, Marco Schiavone, Giuseppe Fiume, Ileana Quinto, and Giuseppe Scala
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 56. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-56.
PMCID: PMC2483718
The second chance story of HIV-1 DNA: Unintegrated? Not a problem!
Yuntao Wu
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 61. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-61.
PMCID: PMC2483994
ESF-EMBO Symposium: Antiviral Applications of RNA Interference
Olivier ter Brake, Joost Haasnoot, Jens Kurreck, and Ben Berkhout
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 81. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-81.
PMCID: PMC2557014
How to engage Cofilin
Michael Bukrinsky
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 85. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-85.
PMCID: PMC2567344
Sometimes the impact factor outshines the H index
Johannes Hönekopp and Janet Kleber
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 88. Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-88.
PMCID: PMC2569067
How HTLV-1 may subvert miRNAs for persistence and transformation
Amel B Bouzar and Luc Willems
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 101. Published online 2008 November 12. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-101.
PMCID: PMC2603043
Correspondence
Isolation of a new HIV-2 group in the US
Stephen M Smith, Deanna Christian, Valéry de Lame, Urvi Shah, Louise Austin, Rajeev Gautam, Aarti Gautam, Cristian Apetrei, and Preston A Marx
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 103. Published online 2008 November 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-103.
PMCID: PMC2596787
Editorials
Please comment, but with civility
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 35. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-35.
PMCID: PMC2383923
Remembering Ralph Grassmann (1957 – 2008)
Klemens Pichler and Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 71. Published online 2008 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-71.
PMCID: PMC2517596
Recognizing mid-career productivity: the 2008 Retrovirology Prize, call for nomination
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 80. Published online 2008 September 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-80.
PMCID: PMC2546437
2008 Nobel prize in Medicine for discoverers of HIV
Andrew ML Lever and Ben Berkhout
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 91. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-91.
PMCID: PMC2579300
H-index, mentoring-index, highly-cited and highly-accessed: how to evaluate scientists?
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 106. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-106.
PMCID: PMC2607307
HIV transmission should be decriminalized: HIV prevention programs depend on it
Mark A Wainberg
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 108. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-108.
PMCID: PMC2613399
The 2008 Retrovirology Prize: Ben Berkhout and his RNA world
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 113. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-113.
PMCID: PMC2615045
Hypothesis
RNA silencing and HIV: A hypothesis for the etiology of the severe combined immunodeficiency induced by the virus
Linda B Ludwig
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 79. Published online 2008 September 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-79.
PMCID: PMC2553099
Research
Role of receptor polymorphism and glycosylation in syncytium induction and host range variation of ecotropic mouse gammaretroviruses
Yuhe Yan, Yong T Jung, Tiyun Wu, and Christine A Kozak
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 2. Published online 2008 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-2.
PMCID: PMC2248597
Preclinical evaluation of lime juice as a topical microbicide candidate
Patricia S Fletcher, Sarah J Harman, Adrienne R Boothe, Gustavo F Doncel, and Robin J Shattock
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 3. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-3.
PMCID: PMC2259360
Pvt1-encoded microRNAs in oncogenesis
Gabriele B Beck-Engeser, Amy M Lum, Konrad Huppi, Natasha J Caplen, Bruce B Wang, and Matthias Wabl
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 4. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-4.
PMCID: PMC2257975
Variation in HIV-1 R5 macrophage-tropism correlates with sensitivity to reagents that block envelope: CD4 interactions but not with sensitivity to other entry inhibitors
Paul J Peters, Maria J Duenas-Decamp, W Matthew Sullivan, Richard Brown, Chiambah Ankghuambom, Katherine Luzuriaga, James Robinson, Dennis R Burton, Jeanne Bell, Peter Simmonds, Jonathan Ball, and Paul R Clapham
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 5. Published online 2008 January 18. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-5.
PMCID: PMC2268948
Multiple independent origins of a protease inhibitor resistance mutation in salvage therapy patients
Amit Kapoor, Beth Shapiro, Robert W Shafer, Nancy Shulman, Soo-Yon Rhee, and Eric L Delwart
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 7. Published online 2008 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-7.
PMCID: PMC2265302
The histone chaperone protein Nucleosome Assembly Protein-1 (hNAP-1) binds HIV-1 Tat and promotes viral transcription
Chiara Vardabasso, Lara Manganaro, Marina Lusic, Alessandro Marcello, and Mauro Giacca
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 8. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-8.
PMCID: PMC2266780
Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 protein Tax reduces histone levels
James M Bogenberger and Paul J Laybourn
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 9. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-9.
PMCID: PMC2276518
The carbohydrate at asparagine 386 on HIV-1 gp120 is not essential for protein folding and function but is involved in immune evasion
Rogier W Sanders, Eelco van Anken, Alexei A Nabatov, I Marije Liscaljet, Ilja Bontjer, Dirk Eggink, Mark Melchers, Els Busser, Martijn M Dankers, Fedde Groot, Ineke Braakman, Ben Berkhout, and William A Paxton
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 10. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-10.
PMCID: PMC2262092
Akt inhibitors as an HIV-1 infected macrophage-specific anti-viral therapy
Pauline Chugh, Birgit Bradel-Tretheway, Carlos MR Monteiro-Filho, Vicente Planelles, Sanjay B Maggirwar, Stephen Dewhurst, and Baek Kim
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 11. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-11.
PMCID: PMC2265748
The incidence of multidrug and full class resistance in HIV-1 infected patients is decreasing over time (2001–2006) in Portugal
Jurgen Vercauteren, Koen Deforche, Kristof Theys, Michiel Debruyne, Luis Miguel Duque, Susana Peres, Ana Patricia Carvalho, Kamal Mansinho, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, and Ricardo Camacho
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 12. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-12.
PMCID: PMC2265747
Alteration of viral lipid composition by expression of the phospholipid floppase ABCB4 reduces HIV vector infectivity
Niek P van Til, Kirstin M Heutinck, Roos van der Rijt, Coen C Paulusma, Michel van Wijland, David M Markusic, Ronald PJ Oude Elferink, and Jurgen Seppen
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 14. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-14.
PMCID: PMC2265746
Early and transient reverse transcription during primary deltaretroviral infection of sheep
Carole Pomier, Maria T Sanchez Alcaraz, Christophe Debacq, Agnes Lançon, Pierre Kerkhofs, Lucas Willems, Eric Wattel, and Franck Mortreux
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 16. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-16.
PMCID: PMC2270868
HIV-1 infection induces changes in expression of cellular splicing factors that regulate alternative viral splicing and virus production in macrophages
Dinushka Dowling, Somayeh Nasr-Esfahani, Chun H Tan, Kate O'Brien, Jane L Howard, David A Jans, Damian FJ Purcell, C Martin Stoltzfus, and Secondo Sonza
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 18. Published online 2008 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-18.
PMCID: PMC2267807
Apoptosis resistance in HIV-1 persistently-infected cells is independent of active viral replication and involves modulation of the apoptotic mitochondrial pathway
Pablo N Fernández Larrosa, Diego O Croci, Diego A Riva, Mariel Bibini, Renata Luzzi, Mónica Saracco, Susana E Mersich, Gabriel A Rabinovich, and Liliana Martínez Peralta
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 19. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-19.
PMCID: PMC2276517
Identification of a novel resistance (E40F) and compensatory (K43E) substitution in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase
Marleen CDG Huigen, Petronella M van Ham, Loek de Graaf, Ron M Kagan, Charles AB Boucher, and Monique Nijhuis
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 20. Published online 2008 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-20.
PMCID: PMC2276231
Characterization of a new 5' splice site within the caprine arthritis encephalitis virus genome: evidence for a novel auxiliary protein
Stephen Valas, Morgane Rolland, Cécile Perrin, Gérard Perrin, and Robert Z Mamoun
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 22. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-22.
PMCID: PMC2291067
Functional diversity of HIV-1 envelope proteins expressed by contemporaneous plasma viruses
Tamara Nora, Francine Bouchonnet, Béatrice Labrosse, Charlotte Charpentier, Fabrizio Mammano, François Clavel, and Allan J Hance
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 23. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-23.
PMCID: PMC2270869
Longitudinal microarray analysis of cell surface antigens on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from HIV+ individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy
Jing Qin Wu, Wayne B Dyer, Jeremy Chrisp, Larissa Belov, Bin Wang, and Nitin K Saksena
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 24. Published online 2008 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-24.
PMCID: PMC2276515
Exceptional molecular and coreceptor-requirement properties of molecular clones isolated from an Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 subtype C infection
Prasanta K Dash, Nagadenahalli B Siddappa, Asokan Mangaiarkarasi, Aruna V Mahendarkar, Padmanabhan Roshan, Krishnamurthy Kumar Anand, Anita Mahadevan, Parthasarathy Satishchandra, Susarla K Shankar, Vinayaka R Prasad, and Udaykumar Ranga
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 25. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-25.
PMCID: PMC2292743
Aqueous extracts from peppermint, sage and lemon balm leaves display potent anti-HIV-1 activity by increasing the virion density
Silvia Geuenich, Christine Goffinet, Stephanie Venzke, Silke Nolkemper, Ingo Baumann, Peter Plinkert, Jürgen Reichling, and Oliver T Keppler
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 27. Published online 2008 March 20. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-27.
PMCID: PMC2288616
Evolution of DC-SIGN use revealed by fitness studies of R5 HIV-1 variants emerging during AIDS progression
Marie Borggren, Johanna Repits, Carlotta Kuylenstierna, Jasminka Sterjovski, Melissa J Churchill, Damian FJ Purcell, Anders Karlsson, Jan Albert, Paul R Gorry, and Marianne Jansson
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 28. Published online 2008 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-28.
PMCID: PMC2330154
Porphyromonas gingivalis induces CCR5-dependent transfer of infectious HIV-1 from oral keratinocytes to permissive cells
Rodrigo A Giacaman, Anil C Asrani, Kristin H Gebhard, Elizabeth A Dietrich, Anjalee Vacharaksa, Karen F Ross, and Mark C Herzberg
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 29. Published online 2008 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-29.
PMCID: PMC2292744
Extracellular ATP reduces HIV-1 transfer from immature dendritic cells to CD4+ T lymphocytes
Corinne Barat, Caroline Gilbert, Michael Imbeault, and Michel J Tremblay
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 30. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-30.
PMCID: PMC2346478
Distinct efficacy of HIV-1 entry inhibitors to prevent cell-to-cell transfer of R5 and X4 viruses across a human placental trophoblast barrier in a reconstitution model in vitro
Ahidjo Ayouba, Claude Cannou, Marie-Thérèse Nugeyre, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Elisabeth Menu
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 31. Published online 2008 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-31.
PMCID: PMC2294141
HIV transfer between CD4 T cells does not require LFA-1 binding to ICAM-1 and is governed by the interaction of HIV envelope glycoprotein with CD4
Isabel Puigdomènech, Marta Massanella, Nuria Izquierdo-Useros, Raul Ruiz-Hernandez, Marta Curriu, Margarita Bofill, Javier Martinez-Picado, Manel Juan, Bonaventura Clotet, and Julià Blanco
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 32. Published online 2008 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-32.
PMCID: PMC2359761
Characteristic expression of HTLV-1 basic zipper factor (HBZ) transcripts in HTLV-1 provirus-positive cells
Tetsuya Usui, Katsunori Yanagihara, Kunihiro Tsukasaki, Ken Murata, Hiroo Hasegawa, Yasuaki Yamada, and Shimeru Kamihira
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 34. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-34.
PMCID: PMC2386809
Selective killing of HIV-1-positive macrophages and T cells by the Rev-dependent lentivirus carrying anthrolysin O from Bacillus anthracis
Jessica Young, Zhongwei Tang, Quan Yu, Dongyang Yu, and Yuntao Wu
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 36. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-36.
PMCID: PMC2391154
HIV-1 latency in actively dividing human T cell lines
Rienk E Jeeninga, Ellen M Westerhout, Marja L van Gerven, and Ben Berkhout
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 37. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-37.
PMCID: PMC2387167
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 2 post-transcriptional control protein p28 is required for viral infectivity and persistence in vivo
Brenda Yamamoto, Min Li, Matthew Kesic, Ihab Younis, Michael D Lairmore, and Patrick L Green
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 38. Published online 2008 May 12. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-38.
PMCID: PMC2405800
Lysine methylation of HIV-1 Tat regulates transcriptional activity of the viral LTR
Rachel Van Duyne, Rebecca Easley, Weilin Wu, Reem Berro, Caitlin Pedati, Zachary Klase, Kylene Kehn-Hall, Elizabeth K Flynn, David E Symer, and Fatah Kashanchi
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 40. Published online 2008 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-40.
PMCID: PMC2412914
The host protein Staufen1 interacts with the Pr55Gag zinc fingers and regulates HIV-1 assembly via its N-terminus
Laurent Chatel-Chaix, Karine Boulay, Andrew J Mouland, and Luc DesGroseillers
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 41. Published online 2008 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-41.
PMCID: PMC2409373
Optimization of the doxycycline-dependent simian immunodeficiency virus through in vitro evolution
Atze T Das, Bep Klaver, Mireille Centlivre, Alex Harwig, Marcel Ooms, Mark Page, Neil Almond, Fang Yuan, Mike Piatak, Jr, Jeffrey D Lifson, and Ben Berkhout
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 44. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-44.
PMCID: PMC2443169
Expression of parathyroid hormone-related protein during immortalization of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells by HTLV-1: Implications for transformation
Murali VP Nadella, Sherry T Shu, Wessel P Dirksen, Nanda K Thudi, Kiran S Nadella, Soledad A Fernandez, Michael D Lairmore, Patrick L Green, and Thomas J Rosol
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 46. Published online 2008 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-46.
PMCID: PMC2435116
HuR interacts with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase, and modulates reverse transcription in infected cells
Julie Lemay, Priscilla Maidou-Peindara, Thomas Bader, Eric Ennifar, Jean-Christophe Rain, Richard Benarous, and Lang Xia Liu
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 47. Published online 2008 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-47.
PMCID: PMC2441633
Host proteins interacting with the Moloney murine leukemia virus integrase: Multiple transcriptional regulators and chromatin binding factors
Barbara Studamire and Stephen P Goff
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 48. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-48.
PMCID: PMC2481268
Reconstitution of the myeloid and lymphoid compartments after the transplantation of autologous and genetically modified CD34+ bone marrow cells, following gamma irradiation in cynomolgus macaques
Sonia Derdouch, Wilfried Gay, Didier Nègre, Stéphane Prost, Mikael Le Dantec, Benoît Delache, Gwenaelle Auregan, Thibault Andrieu, Jean-Jacques Leplat, François-Loïc Cosset, and Roger Le Grand
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 50. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-50.
PMCID: PMC2464606
A formylpeptide receptor, FPRL1, acts as an efficient coreceptor for primary isolates of human immunodeficiency virus
Nobuaki Shimizu, Atsushi Tanaka, Takahisa Mori, Takahiro Ohtsuki, Aliful Hoque, Atsushi Jinno-Oue, Chatchawann Apichartpiyakul, Shigeru Kusagawa, Yutaka Takebe, and Hiroo Hoshino
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 52. Published online 2008 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-52.
PMCID: PMC2453146
Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' disease agent) reduces HIV-1 replication in human placenta
Guillermina Laura Dolcini, María Elisa Solana, Guadalupe Andreani, Ana María Celentano, Laura María Parodi, Ana María Donato, Natalia Elissondo, Stella Maris González Cappa, Luis David Giavedoni, and Liliana Martínez Peralta
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 53. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-53.
PMCID: PMC2464605
Characterization of APOBEC3G binding to 7SL RNA
Daniel Bach, Shyam Peddi, Bastien Mangeat, Asvin Lakkaraju, Katharina Strub, and Didier Trono
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 54. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-54.
PMCID: PMC2494554
VSV-G pseudotyping rescues HIV-1 CA mutations that impair core assembly or stability
Sonia Brun, Maxime Solignat, Bernard Gay, Eric Bernard, Laurent Chaloin, David Fenard, Christian Devaux, Nathalie Chazal, and Laurence Briant
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 57. Published online 2008 July 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-57.
PMCID: PMC2474847
Mouse T-cells restrict replication of human immunodeficiency virus at the level of integration
Hanna-Mari Tervo, Christine Goffinet, and Oliver T Keppler
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 58. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-58.
PMCID: PMC2557013
Implication of TRIMalpha and TRIMCyp in interferon-induced anti-retroviral restriction activities
Laetitia Carthagena, Mélanie C Parise, Mathieu Ringeard, Mounira K Chelbi-Alix, Uriel Hazan, and Sébastien Nisole
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 59. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-59.
PMCID: PMC2483995
Viral complementation allows HIV-1 replication without integration
Huub C Gelderblom, Dimitrios N Vatakis, Sean A Burke, Steven D Lawrie, Gregory C Bristol, and David N Levy
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 60. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-60.
PMCID: PMC2474848
Modulation of microtubule assembly by the HIV-1 Tat protein is strongly dependent on zinc binding to Tat
Caroline Egelé, Pascale Barbier, Pascal Didier, Etienne Piémont, Diane Allegro, Olivier Chaloin, Sylviane Muller, Vincent Peyrot, and Yves Mély
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 62. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-62.
PMCID: PMC2483996
Dominant negative mutant Cyclin T1 proteins inhibit HIV transcription by specifically degrading Tat
Julie K Jadlowsky, Masanori Nojima, Antje Schulte, Matthias Geyer, Takashi Okamoto, and Koh Fujinaga
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 63. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-63.
PMCID: PMC2492875
Regulation of primate lentiviral RNA dimerization by structural entrapment
Tayyba T Baig, Christy L Strong, J Stephen Lodmell, and Jean-Marc Lanchy
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 65. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-65.
PMCID: PMC2494553
Oral keratinocytes support non-replicative infection and transfer of harbored HIV-1 to permissive cells
Anjalee Vacharaksa, Anil C Asrani, Kristin H Gebhard, Claudine E Fasching, Rodrigo A Giacaman, Edward N Janoff, Karen F Ross, and Mark C Herzberg
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 66. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-66.
PMCID: PMC2491655
HLA-C increases HIV-1 infectivity and is associated with gp120
Andrea Matucci, Paola Rossolillo, Miriam Baroni, Antonio G Siccardi, Alberto Beretta, and Donato Zipeto
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 68. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-68.
PMCID: PMC2531131
New and old complex recombinant HIV-1 strains among patients with primary infection in 1996–2006 in France: The French ANRS CO06 primo cohort study
Pierre Frange, Julie Galimand, Nicole Vidal, Cécile Goujard, Christiane Deveau, Faouzi Souala, Martine Peeters, Laurence Meyer, Christine Rouzioux, and Marie-Laure Chaix
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 69. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-69.
PMCID: PMC2553414
Highly specific inhibition of leukaemia virus membrane fusion by interaction of peptide antagonists with a conserved region of the coiled coil of envelope
Daniel Lamb, Alexander W Schüttelkopf, Daan MF van Aalten, and David W Brighty
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 70. Published online 2008 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-70.
PMCID: PMC2533354
APOBEC3G-UBA2 fusion as a potential strategy for stable expression of APOBEC3G and inhibition of HIV-1 replication
Lin Li, Dong Liang, Jing-yun Li, and Richard Y Zhao
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 72. Published online 2008 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-72.
PMCID: PMC2535603
Nuclear import of Avian Sarcoma Virus integrase is facilitated by host cell factors
Mark D Andrake, Monica M Sauter, Kim Boland, Andrew D Goldstein, Maryem Hussein, and Anna Marie Skalka
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 73. Published online 2008 August 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-73.
PMCID: PMC2527327
Natural variation of HIV-1 group M integrase: Implications for a new class of antiretroviral inhibitors
Soo-Yon Rhee, Tommy F Liu, Mark Kiuchi, Rafael Zioni, Robert J Gifford, Susan P Holmes, and Robert W Shafer
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 74. Published online 2008 August 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-74.
PMCID: PMC2546438
Restriction by APOBEC3 proteins of endogenous retroviruses with an extracellular life cycle: ex vivo effects and in vivo "traces" on the murine IAPE and human HERV-K elements
Cécile Esnault, Stéphane Priet, David Ribet, Odile Heidmann, and Thierry Heidmann
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 75. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-75.
PMCID: PMC2531183
A single site for N-linked glycosylation in the envelope glycoprotein of feline immunodeficiency virus modulates the virus-receptor interaction
Brian J Willett, Elizabeth L McMonagle, Nicola Logan, Ayman Samman, and Margaret J Hosie
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 77. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-77.
PMCID: PMC2563026
The role of the humoral immune response in the molecular evolution of the envelope C2, V3 and C3 regions in chronically HIV-2 infected patients
Pedro Borrego, José Maria Marcelino, Cheila Rocha, Manuela Doroana, Francisco Antunes, Fernando Maltez, Perpétua Gomes, Carlos Novo, Helena Barroso, and Nuno Taveira
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 78. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-78.
PMCID: PMC2563025
Homonuclear 1H NMR and circular dichroism study of the HIV-1 Tat Eli variant
Jennifer D Watkins, Grant R Campbell, Hubert Halimi, and Erwann P Loret
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 83. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-83.
PMCID: PMC2557015
Human T-cell leukemia virus type I infects human lung epithelial cells and induces gene expression of cytokines, chemokines and cell adhesion molecules
Hiromitsu Teruya, Mariko Tomita, Masachika Senba, Chie Ishikawa, Maki Tamayose, Akiko Miyazato, Satomi Yara, Yuetsu Tanaka, Yoichiro Iwakura, Jiro Fujita, and Naoki Mori
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 86. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-86.
PMCID: PMC2556696
Direct Vpr-Vpr Interaction in Cells monitored by two Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Joëlle V Fritz, Pascal Didier, Jean-Pierre Clamme, Emmanuel Schaub, Delphine Muriaux, Charlotte Cabanne, Nelly Morellet, Serge Bouaziz, Jean-Luc Darlix, Yves Mély, and Hugues de Rocquigny
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 87. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-87.
PMCID: PMC2562391
The V1-V3 region of a brain-derived HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein determines macrophage tropism, low CD4 dependence, increased fusogenicity and altered sensitivity to entry inhibitors
Fiorella Rossi, Bianca Querido, Manideepthi Nimmagadda, Simon Cocklin, Sonia Navas-Martín, and Julio Martín-García
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 89. Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-89.
PMCID: PMC2576352
Activation and detection of HTLV-I Tax-specific CTLs by Epitope expressing Single-Chain Trimers of MHC Class I in a rat model
Takashi Ohashi, Mika Nagai, Hiroyuki Okada, Ryo Takayanagi, and Hisatoshi Shida
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 90. Published online 2008 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-90.
PMCID: PMC2579301
Physical and in silico approaches identify DNA-PK in a Tax DNA-damage response interactome
Emad Ramadan, Michael Ward, Xin Guo, Sarah S Durkin, Adam Sawyer, Marcelo Vilela, Christopher Osgood, Alex Pothen, and Oliver J Semmes
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 92. Published online 2008 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-92.
PMCID: PMC2576351
Peptide P5 (residues 628–683), comprising the entire membrane proximal region of HIV-1 gp41 and its calcium-binding site, is a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 infection
Huifeng Yu, Daniela Tudor, Annette Alfsen, Beatrice Labrosse, François Clavel, and Morgane Bomsel
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 93. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-93.
PMCID: PMC2585100
Anti-HTLV antibody profiling reveals an antibody signature for HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP)
Peter D Burbelo, Elise Meoli, Hannah P Leahy, Jhanelle Graham, Karen Yao, Unsong Oh, John E Janik, Renaud Mahieux, Fatah Kashanchi, Michael J Iadarola, and Steven Jacobson
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 96. Published online 2008 October 20. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-96.
PMCID: PMC2580768
Selective translational repression of HIV-1 RNA by Sam68DeltaC occurs by altering PABP1 binding to unspliced viral RNA
Kim Marsh, Vanessa Soros, and Alan Cochrane
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 97. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-97.
PMCID: PMC2584037
Intragenic transcriptional cis-activation of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 does not result in allele-specific inhibition of the endogenous gene
Alex De Marco, Chiara Biancotto, Anna Knezevich, Paolo Maiuri, Chiara Vardabasso, and Alessandro Marcello
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 98. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-98.
PMCID: PMC2586024
Contribution of the C-terminal region within the catalytic core domain of HIV-1 integrase to yeast lethality, chromatin binding and viral replication
Zaikun Xu, Yingfeng Zheng, Zhujun Ao, Martin Clement, Andrew J Mouland, Ganjam V Kalpana, Pierre Belhumeur, Éric A Cohen, and XiaoJian Yao
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 102. Published online 2008 November 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-102.
PMCID: PMC2615443
Physiological properties of astroglial cell lines derived from mice with high (SAMP8) and low (SAMR1, ICR) levels of endogenous retrovirus
Boe-Hyun Kim, Harry C Meeker, Hae-Young Shin, Jae-Il Kim, Byung-Hoon Jeong, Eun-Kyoung Choi, Richard I Carp, and Yong-Sun Kim
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 104. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-104.
PMCID: PMC2607306
Induction of galectin-1 expression by HTLV-I Tax and its impact on HTLV-I infectivity
Sonia Gauthier, Isabelle Pelletier, Michel Ouellet, Amandine Vargas, Michel J Tremblay, Sachiko Sato, and Benoit Barbeau
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 105. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-105.
PMCID: PMC2613925
Human Immunodeficiency Virus type-1 reverse transcriptase exists as post-translationally modified forms in virions and cells
Adam J Davis, Jillian M Carr, Christopher J Bagley, Jason Powell, David Warrilow, David Harrich, Christopher J Burrell, and Peng Li
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 115. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-115.
PMCID: PMC2625352
Reviews
6th International Symposium on Retroviral Nucleocapsid
Ben Berkhout, Robert Gorelick, Michael F Summers, Yves Mély, and Jean-Luc Darlix
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 21. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-21.
PMCID: PMC2276516
Uracil within DNA: an actor of antiviral immunity
Joséphine Sire, Gilles Quérat, Cécile Esnault, and Stéphane Priet
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 45. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-45.
PMCID: PMC2427051
Avian myeoloblastosis virus (AMV): only one side of the coin
Bernard Perbal
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 49. Published online 2008 June 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-49.
PMCID: PMC2442608
HIV-1 Vif, APOBEC, and Intrinsic Immunity
Ritu Goila-Gaur and Klaus Strebel
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 51. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-51.
PMCID: PMC2443170
The HTLV-1 Tax interactome
Mathieu Boxus, Jean-Claude Twizere, Sébastien Legros, Jean-François Dewulf, Richard Kettmann, and Luc Willems
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 76. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-76.
PMCID: PMC2533353
HIV-1 Nef: at the crossroads
John L Foster and J Victor Garcia
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 84. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-84.
PMCID: PMC2563024
Multi-stage Friend murine erythroleukemia: molecular insights into oncogenic cooperation
Françoise Moreau-Gachelin
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 99. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-99.
PMCID: PMC2585586
Integrase and integration: biochemical activities of HIV-1 integrase
Olivier Delelis, Kevin Carayon, Ali Saïb, Eric Deprez, and Jean-François Mouscadet
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 114. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-114.
PMCID: PMC2615046
Short Reports
Expression of infectious murine leukemia viruses by RAW264.7 cells, a potential complication for studies with a widely used mouse macrophage cell line
Janet W Hartley, Leonard H Evans, Kim Y Green, Zohreh Naghashfar, Alfonso R Macias, Patricia M Zerfas, and Jerrold M Ward
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 1. Published online 2008 January 4. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-1.
PMCID: PMC2253558
Human endogenous retrovirus-FRD envelope protein (syncytin 2) expression in normal and trisomy 21-affected placenta
André Malassiné, Jean-Louis Frendo, Sandra Blaise, Karen Handschuh, Pascale Gerbaud, Vassilis Tsatsaris, Thierry Heidmann, and Danièle Evain-Brion
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 6. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-6.
PMCID: PMC2245979
Immunotherapy with internally inactivated virus loaded dendritic cells boosts cellular immunity but does not affect feline immunodeficiency virus infection course
Giulia Freer, Donatella Matteucci, Paola Mazzetti, Francesca Tarabella, Enrica Ricci, Leonia Bozzacco, Antonio Merico, Mauro Pistello, Luca Ceccherini-Nelli, and Mauro Bendinelli
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 33. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-33.
PMCID: PMC2373306
Refined study of the interaction between HIV-1 p6 late domain and ALIX
Carine Lazert, Nathalie Chazal, Laurence Briant, Denis Gerlier, and Jean-Claude Cortay
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 39. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-39.
PMCID: PMC2397435
Nef does not contribute to replication differences between R5 pre-AIDS and AIDS HIV-1 clones from patient ACH142
Kevin C Olivieri, Robert M Scoggins, Brooks Broderick, Maria LC Powell, Melissa A Alexander, Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld, David Rekosh, and David Camerini
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 42. Published online 2008 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-42.
PMCID: PMC2440386
Highly diversified multiply drug-resistant HIV-1 quasispecies in PBMCs: a case report
Yudong Quan, Bluma G Brenner, André Dascal, and Mark A Wainberg
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 43. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-43.
PMCID: PMC2426714
CD45 immunoaffinity depletion of vesicles from Jurkat T cells demonstrates that exosomes contain CD45: no evidence for a distinct exosome/HIV-1 budding pathway
Lori V Coren, Teresa Shatzer, and David E Ott
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 64. Published online 2008 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-64.
PMCID: PMC2490705
Impaired nuclear import and viral incorporation of Vpr derived from a HIV long-term non-progressor
Leon Caly, Nitin K Saksena, Sabine C Piller, and David A Jans
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 67. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-67.
PMCID: PMC2515335
beta-estradiol attenuates the anti-HIV-1 efficacy of Stavudine (D4T) in primary PBL
Mingjie Zhang, Qingsheng Huang, Yong Huang, Owen Wood, Weishi Yuan, Caren Chancey, Sylvester Daniel, Maria Rios, Indira Hewlett, Kathleen A Clouse, and Andrew I Dayton
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 82. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-82.
PMCID: PMC2556697
SHIV-1157i and passaged progeny viruses encoding R5 HIV-1 clade C env cause AIDS in rhesus monkeys
Michael Humbert, Robert A Rasmussen, Ruijiang Song, Helena Ong, Prachi Sharma, Agnès L Chenine, Victor G Kramer, Nagadenahalli B Siddappa, Weidong Xu, James G Else, Francis J Novembre, Elizabeth Strobert, Shawn P O'Neil, and Ruth M Ruprecht
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 94. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-94.
PMCID: PMC2576354
Cofilin activation in peripheral CD4 T cells of HIV-1 infected patients: a pilot study
Yuntao Wu, Alyson Yoder, Dongyang Yu, Weifeng Wang, Juan Liu, Tracey Barrett, David Wheeler, and Karen Schlauch
Retrovirology. 2008; 5: 95. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-95.
PMCID: PMC2576353
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