Detection of occult simian immunodeficiency virus SIVsmm infection in asymptomatic seronegative nonhuman primates and evidence for variation in SIV gag sequence between in vivo- and in vitro-propagated virus
| Autor: | Tamar Jehuda-Cohen, Jonathan D. Powell, T. M. Folks, N. Neckelmann, M. Vuchetich, B De, Aftab A. Ansari, Harold M. McClure, Francois Villinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Sequence analysis
animal diseases viruses Molecular Sequence Data Immunology Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Gene Products gag Biology Antibodies Viral Virus Replication medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Sensitivity and Specificity Microbiology Virus law.invention law Sequence Homology Nucleic Acid Virology medicine Antigenic variation Animals Mangabey Cloning Molecular Cells Cultured Polymerase chain reaction Base Sequence Nucleic acid sequence Simian immunodeficiency virus Antigenic Variation Macaca mulatta Viral replication Insect Science DNA Viral Leukocytes Mononuclear Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Virology. 65:1855-1862 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5514 0022-538X |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jvi.65.4.1855-1862.1991 |
| Popis: | Polymerase chain reaction techniques were used to identify simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) SIVsmm gag sequences in genomic DNA isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells from naturally infected asymptomatic seropositive and seronegative sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and from experimentally infected but asymptomatic rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). The results indicate that most if not all SIV-seronegative mangabeys from the colony at the Yerkes Primate Center are in fact infected with SIVsmm despite their lack of humoral immune response, confirming previous immunological and virological observations made by our laboratory. Sequence analysis of these particular gag fragments from the mangabey revealed an average of 88% nucleotide sequence homology but 97% amino acid identity with the previously published sequence of the SIVsmmH4 clone. The significance of this finding relative to the asymptomatic state of SIV-infected mangabeys and disease-susceptible SIV-infected rhesus macaques is discussed. |
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