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01-05-2014 | Oral presentation
DC SIGNR silencing reduces HIV-1 infection in Dendritic cells
Authors:
Omkar Chaudhary, Sanjeev Kumar, Heena Aggarwal, Muzamil A Makhdoomi, Jasbir Singh, Anjali Hazarika, Kalpana Luthra
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
Dendritic cells (DCs) capture HIV-1 from periphery via DC SIGN/R receptors and transfer to T cells. It has been reported that siRNA directed against DC SIGN significantly inhibits HIV infection of DCs. In this study, the expression of DC SIGN/R and its role in HIV-1 infectivity of DCs were assessed. …