Nef Enhances Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infectivity and Replication Independently of Viral Coreceptor Tropism

Abstract
We investigated the infectivities and replicative capacities of a large panel of variants of the molecular human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) NL4-3 clone that differ exclusively in the V3 region of the viral envelope glycoprotein and thenefgene. Our results demonstrate that Nef enhances virion infectivity and HIV-1 replication independently of the viral coreceptor tropism.

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