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Journal of Virology, July 2002, p. 6857-6862, Vol. 76, No. 13
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.13.6857-6862.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Nef Enhances Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infectivity in the Absence of Matrix
Tatyana Dorfman, Elena Popova, Massimo Pizzato, and Heinrich G. Göttlinger*
Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Received 5 November 2001/
Accepted 22 March 2002
Nef enhances the serine phosphorylation of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 matrix (MA) protein, which suggests that MA may be a functional target of Nef. Using mutants that remain infectious despite the absence of most or all of MA, we show in the present study that the ability of Nef to enhance virus infectivity is not compromised even if MA is entirely replaced by a heterologous lipid anchor.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 632-3067. Fax: (617) 632-3113. E-mail:
heinrich_gottlinger{at}dfci.harvard.edu.
Journal of Virology, July 2002, p. 6857-6862, Vol. 76, No. 13
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.13.6857-6862.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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