Search Abstracts Program


Session 6   Oral Abstract Presentations
HIV Replication: Entry and Assembly
Tuesday 10 am - 12:30 pm
Ballroom A
Moderators: Betty Poon David Geffen Sch of Med, Univ of California, Los Angeles and Ronald Desrosiers New England Regional Primate Res Ctr, Harvard Med Sch, Southborough, MA
10:00       17Inside-out Regulation of HIV-1 Particle Fusion
Christopher Aiken*1, Donald J. Wyma1, Janet E. Lineberger2, Michael D. Miller2
1Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville, TN and 2Merck Res Labs, West Point, PA
10:15       18Disruption of Lipid Rafts in HIV-producing Cells Impairs Fusion of HIV-1 Virions To Target Cells
M. Cavrois*1, W. Yonemoto1, D. Fenard1, J. Neidleman 1, W. Greene1,2
1Gladstone Inst of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA and 2Univ of California at San Francisco
10:30       19Mutations in the Cytoplasmic Domain of the SIV Transmembrane Molecule can Dramatically Increase Envelope Content in Virions, Infectivity, and Resistance to Antibody-mediated Neutralization
E. Yuste*, R. Desrosiers
Harvard Med Sch New England Regional Primate Res Ctr, Southborough, MA
10:45       20Recruitment of CD4, CCR5, Rafts, and Ezrin in Actin-dependent Cell Surface Structures: Implications for HIV Fusion and Entry Events
C.M. Steffens*, T.J. Hope
Univ of Illinois at Chicago
11:00       21In Vitro De-evolution of the HIV Envelope Glycoprotein to Functional Core Elements with Deletions of V1/V2 and V3 Hypervariable Loops
G. Lin*, B. S. Haggarty, J. Romano, P. J. Vance, J. A. Hoxie
Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
11:15       22A Novel Potent CD4-induced Monoclonal Antibody (E51) Active against Primary HIV-1 Strains
S.-H. Xiang*1, M. Abreu1, J. Robinson2, J. Sodroski1
1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst, Boston, MA and 2Tulane Univ Med Ctr, New Orleans, LA
11:30       23Sensitivity of HIV-1 to Entry Inhibitors Correlates with Envelope: Co-receptor Affinity, Co-receptor Density, and Fusion Kinetics
J. Reeves*1, S. Gallo2, N. Ahmad1, J. Miamidian1, P. Harvey1, M. Sharron1, S. Pöhlmann1, T. Pierson1, M. Biscone1, J. Sfakianos3, C. Derdeyn3, G. Tomaras4, R. Blumenthal2, E. Hunter3, R. Doms1
1Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 2Natl Cancer Inst, Frederick, MD; 3Univ of Alabama at Birmingham; and 4Duke Univ, Durham, NC
11:45       24The Role of ESCRT-I in Retroviral Budding
Juan Martin-Serrano*, Trinity Zang, Paul D. Bieniasz
Aaron Diamond AIDS Res Ctr, Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY
12:00       25Cleavage at the N-terminus of the HIV Protease is Modulated by the Beta-sheet Structure of the Dimer Interface
A.H.Kaplan*, S.C.Pettit
Univ of North Carolina Sch of Med, Chapel Hill
12:15   26lbPML and the Proteasome as Meiators of Intracellular Antiretroviral Innate Immunity
P. Turelli, D Trono*
Univ of Geneva, Switzerland