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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 9, Pages 4404-4413Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.9.4404-4413.2000
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI043885, R29AI414110, R01AI43885] Funding Source: Medline
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chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR5 are the principal coreceptors for infection of X4 and R5 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates, respectively. Here we report on the unexpected observation that the removal of the N-linked glycosylation sites in CXCR4 potentially allows the protein to serve as a universal coreceptor for both X4 and R5 laboratory-adapted and primary HIV-1 strains. We hypothesize that this alteration unmasks existing common extracellular structures reflecting a conserved three-dimensional similarity of important elements of CXCR4 and CCR5 that are involved in HIV envelope glycoprotein (Env) interaction. These results may have far-reaching implications for the differential recognition of cell type-dependent glycosylated CXCR4 by HIV-1 isolates and their evolution in vivo. They also suggest a possible explanation for the various observations of restricted virus entry in some cell types and further our understanding of the framework of elements that represent the Env-coreceptor contact sites.
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