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Tat-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes select for SIV escape variants during resolution of primary viraemia 总被引:55,自引:0,他引:55
Allen TM O'Connor DH Jing P Dzuris JL Mothé BR Vogel TU Dunphy E Liebl ME Emerson C Wilson N Kunstman KJ Wang X Allison DB Hughes AL Desrosiers RC Altman JD Wolinsky SM Sette A Watkins DI 《Nature》2000,407(6802):386-390
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections are characterized by early peaks of viraemia that decline as strong cellular immune responses develop. Although it has been shown that virus-specific CD8-positive cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) exert selective pressure during HIV and SIV infection, the data have been controversial. Here we show that Tat-specific CD8-positive T-lymphocyte responses select for new viral escape variants during the acute phase of infection. We sequenced the entire virus immediately after the acute phase, and found that amino-acid replacements accumulated primarily in Tat CTL epitopes. This implies that Tat-specific CTLs may be significantly involved in controlling wild-type virus replication, and suggests that responses against viral proteins that are expressed early during the viral life cycle might be attractive targets for HIV vaccine development. 相似文献
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Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
Margulies M Egholm M Altman WE Attiya S Bader JS Bemben LA Berka J Braverman MS Chen YJ Chen Z Dewell SB Du L Fierro JM Gomes XV Godwin BC He W Helgesen S Ho CH Ho CH Irzyk GP Jando SC Alenquer ML Jarvie TP Jirage KB Kim JB Knight JR Lanza JR Leamon JH Lefkowitz SM Lei M Li J Lohman KL Lu H Makhijani VB McDade KE McKenna MP Myers EW Nickerson E Nobile JR Plant R Puc BP Ronan MT Roth GT Sarkis GJ Simons JF Simpson JW Srinivasan M Tartaro KR Tomasz A Vogt KA Volkmer GA Wang SH Wang Y Weiner MP 《Nature》2005,437(7057):376-380
The proliferation of large-scale DNA-sequencing projects in recent years has driven a search for alternative methods to reduce time and cost. Here we describe a scalable, highly parallel sequencing system with raw throughput significantly greater than that of state-of-the-art capillary electrophoresis instruments. The apparatus uses a novel fibre-optic slide of individual wells and is able to sequence 25 million bases, at 99% or better accuracy, in one four-hour run. To achieve an approximately 100-fold increase in throughput over current Sanger sequencing technology, we have developed an emulsion method for DNA amplification and an instrument for sequencing by synthesis using a pyrosequencing protocol optimized for solid support and picolitre-scale volumes. Here we show the utility, throughput, accuracy and robustness of this system by shotgun sequencing and de novo assembly of the Mycoplasma genitalium genome with 96% coverage at 99.96% accuracy in one run of the machine. 相似文献
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For a wide variety of microbial pathogens, the outcome of the infection is indeterminate. In some individuals the microbe is cleared, but in others it establishes a chronic infection, and the factors that tip this balance are often unknown. In a widely used model of chronic viral infection, C57BL/6 mice clear the Armstrong strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), but the clone 13 strain persists. Here we show that the Armstrong strain induces a profound lymphopenia at days 1-3 after infection, but the clone 13 strain does not. If we transiently augment lymphopenia by treating the clone-13-infected mice with the drug FTY720 at days 0-2 after infection, the mice successfully clear the infection by day 30. Clearance does not occur when CD4 T cells are absent at the time of treatment, indicating that the drug is not exerting direct antiviral effects. Notably, FTY720 treatment of an already established persistent infection also leads to viral clearance. In both models, FTY720 treatment preserves or augments LCMV-specific CD4 and CD8 T-cell responses, a result that is counter-intuitive because FTY720 is generally regarded as a new immunosuppressive agent. Because FTY720 targets host pathways that are completely evolutionarily conserved, our results may be translatable into new immunotherapies for the treatment of chronic microbial infections in humans. 相似文献
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Phototransduction. A role for calcium in adaptation 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
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