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    J Virol. 2009 Oct;83(19):10280-5. Epub 2009 Jul 15.

    Novel translation products from simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac239 Env-encoding mRNA contain both Rev and cryptic T-cell epitopes.

    Maness NJ, Sacha JB, Piaskowski SM, Weisgrau KL, Rakasz EG, May GE, Buechler MB, Walsh AD, Wilson NA, Watkins DI.

    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 555 Science Drive, Madison, WI 53711, USA. njmaness@wisc.edu

    Understanding the correlates of immune protection against human immunodeficiency virus and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) will require defining the entire cellular immune response against the viruses. Here, we define two novel translation products from the SIV env mRNA that are targeted by the T-cell response in SIV-infected rhesus macaques. The shorter product is a subset of the larger product, which contains both the first exon of the Rev protein and a translated portion of the rev intron. Our data suggest that the translation of viral alternate reading frames may be an important source of T-cell epitopes, including epitopes normally derived from functional proteins.

    PMID: 19605480 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 2748035

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