Search Abstracts Program


Session 40   Poster Presentations
Virus Entry, Tropism, and Attachment
Thursday 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Hall D
270Syndecans on the Vascular Endothelium Serve as a Major in trans Viral Reservoir for HIV
M. Bobardt, A. Saphire, P. Gallay*
Scripps Res Inst, La Jolla, CA
271Use of CCR5/CXCR4 Chimeric Receptors Reveal Evolution of HIV-1 R5 Phenotype in Relation to Pathogenesis
E. M. Fenyö*1, I. Karlsson1, L. Antonsson1, Y. Shi2, A. Karlsson3, J. Albert2, B. Olde1, C. Owman1
1Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden; 2Karolinska Inst, Stockholm, Sweden; and 3South Hosp, Stockholm, Sweden
272Evolution of R5 and X4 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Gag Sequences in Vivo: Evidence for Recombination
Hanneke Schuitemaker*, Janny Visser, Ronald van Rij
Sanquin Res and Academic Med Ctr, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
273A Subset of HIV and SIVs that Use an Alternative Coreceptor to Infect Primary Human Cell Cultures
S Willey1,2, J Reeves2,3, A McKnight2, J Bell4, R Hudson5, K Luzuriaga5, P Clapham*1
1Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch, Worcester; 2Univ of California-London, UK; 3Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 4Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland; and 5Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch, Worcester
274Role of N-linked Glycosylation of CXCR4 in SDF-1 Binding and HIV-1 Infection
J. Wang*1, G. J. Babcock1, H. Choe2, M. Farzan3, J. Sodroski1, D. Gabuzda1
1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA; 2Children's Hosp, Boston, MA; and 3Partners AIDS Res Ctr, Cambridge, MA
275Generation of HIV-1 Co-receptor Switch Variants In Vitro
Cristina Pastore*, Alejandra Ramos, Donald E. Mosier
Scripps Res Inst, La Jolla, CA
276Isolation of a CD4-independent HIV-1 Variant with Novel Phenotypes Including Ability to Infect a Wide Range of CD4- Cells
Bouchra Zerhouni*, Amy Traven, Kunal Saha
Children's Hosp, Columbus, OH
277An Unusual Block in X4-Tropic HIV-1 Challenge of Mouse T-cells
J. Baumann*1, G. Ahn1, D. Unutmaz2, V. KewalRamani1
1Natl Cancer Inst at Frederick, MD and 2Vanderbilt Univ, Sch of Med, Nashville, TN
278Single-cell Analysis of HIV-1 Infected Primary Human Macrophages
A. Brown*, T. Kawano, C. Cheng-Mayer
Aaron Diamond AIDS Res Ctr, New York, NY
279R5 but Not X4 Primary Viral Isolates of HIV-1 Can Localize Their cDNA to the Nucleus in Monocyte Derived Macrophages
J. W. Choi*, I. A. Teo, S. Shaunak
Imperial Coll, London, UK
280Influence of V3 Charge in Conjunction with gp120 N-linked Glycosylation Patterns on Chemokine and Neutralizing Antibody Inhibition of HIV-1
A Nabatov, G Pollakis, T Linnemann, A Kliphuis, M Chalaby, W Paxton*
Univ of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
281A Quantitative Assay to Measure Cell-to-Cell Fusion Mediated by HIV-1 Env Glycoprotein
Y. Ataman-Önal*1, P-Y. Durand1, F. Reynard1, F. Bedin1, R. Altmeyer2, M. Girard3, B. Verrier1
1UMR2142 CNRS-bioMerieux, Lyon, France; 2Inst Pasteur, Paris, France; and 3Fndn Merieux, Lyon, France
282Removal of Glycosylation Sites within Env Proximal to the Rim of the CD4 Binding Pocket Changes Env Affinity for Soluble CD4
C. Pikora*, C. Wittish, R. C. Desrosiers
New England Regional Primate Res Ctr, Southborough, MA
283Are Broadly Neutralizing Epitopes Exposed Differently on the HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins at Different Stages of Infection?
L Dacheux*1, Y Ataman2, B Verrier2, F Barin1
1Univ François Rabelais, Tours, France and 2Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
284HIV-1 Fusion Inhibitors Bind to the N-Helical Coiled-coil Domain in Receptor-activated gp41
N. Kilgore, K. Salzwedel, M. Reddick, G.Allaway, C. Wild*
Panacos Pharm, Gaithersburg, MD
286Effect of PRA1 Suppression on SIV Virion Release, Infectivity, and Envelope Content
P Blancou*, DT Evans, RC Desrosiers
Harvard Univ, Southborough, MA
287PI3-Kinase Regulates HIV-1 Replication Following Viral Entry in Primary CD4+ T-lymphocytes
Fleur Francois, Mary E. Klotman*
Mt Sinai Sch of Med, New York, NY
288Signaling Response to Cyclophilin A and Stimulation of HIV-1 Infection are Independent Functions of CD147
M. Bukrinsky1, T. Pushkarsky1, V. Yurchenko2, B. Sherry3, B. Brichacek*1
1George Washington Univ Med Ctr, Washington, DC; 2Albert Einstein Coll of Med, Bronx, NY; and 3North Shore Long Island Jewish Res Inst, Manhasset, NY
289HIV-1 Enters Primary Human Fetal Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells by a Lipid Raft-independent Mechanism
E. G. Argyris*, E. Acheampong, M. Mukhtar, K. J. Williams, R. J. Pomerantz
Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA
290Sigma-2 Receptor Agonists Inhibit HIV Infection of Lymphocytes by Reducing Membrane Sphingomyelin Content
KW Crawford*1,2, Z Liao3, JE Hildreth3, WD Bowen2
1Howard Univ Sch of Pharmacy, Washington, DC; 2Natl Inst of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD; and 3Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD
291Massive Transfer of HIV Particles to Non-permissive Cells during Cell-to-Cell Contacts
J Blanco*, J Barretina, B Clotet, J A Esté
Fundació IrsiCaixa, Hosp Univ Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
292HIV-1 Mediated Signal Transduction through CCR5 Allows Infection of Resting Memory T-cells
A. Matthews*, J. Vasudevan, D. Camerini
Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville
293Physical Determinants of HIV Infectivity In Vitro: Brownian Motion Underlies Target Cell Limitation
M. C. Strain*1, H. Levine1, D. Sheeter2, C. C. Ignacio1, D. V. Havlir3, D. D. Richman1,4, J. K. Wong1,4
1Univ of California at San Diego, La Jolla; 2Scripps Res Inst, La Jolla, CA; 3San Francisco Gen Hosp, CA; and 4Veterans Affairs San Diego Heatlhcare System, CA
294Antibody to LFA-1 Blocks HIV-1 Infection in Primary Cells through the Activation of Caspase 8
L. M. Cimakasky*, J. E. K. Hildreth
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD
295The Infectivity and Cytopathicity of HIV-1 is Greatly Affected by the Purification State of the Virus
B Schweighardt*, J Heymann, E Grace, D Nixon
Gladstone Inst of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA
295aSingle Mutation in the N-terminal alpha Helix of SIV Gp41 Expands Coreceptor Usage of Viral Envelope
T. Kodama*, S. Jin, M. Murphey-Corb
Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA