Nature Immunology
3, 709 - 710 (2002)
Published online: 1 July 2002; | doi:10.1038/ni819
HIV entry: are all receptors created equal?Mark A. Goldsmith1
& Robert W. Doms21
Genencor International, Inc., 925 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1013, USA. mgoldsmith@genencor.com
2
Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, 225 Johnson Pavilion, 3610 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076, USA. doms@mail.med.upenn.edu
CD4 is almost universally required for HIV to enter cells. A mutable disulfide bond of CD4, however, can influence the permissiveness of cells to HIV infection.
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