Vaccination against endogenous retrotransposable element consensus sequences does not protect rhesus macaques from SIVsmE660 infection and replication.

The enormous sequence diversity of HIV remains a major roadblock to the development of a prophylactic vaccine and new approaches to induce protective immunity are needed. Endogenous retrotransposable elements (ERE) such as endogenous retrovirus K (ERV)-K and long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Neil C Sheppard, R Brad Jones, Benjamin J Burwitz, Francesca A Nimityongskul, Laura P Newman, Matthew B Buechler, Jason S Reed, Shari M Piaskowski, Kim L Weisgrau, Philip A Castrovinci, Nancy A Wilson, Mario A Ostrowski, Byung Park, Douglas F Nixon, Eva G Rakasz, Jonah B Sacha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3961289?pdf=render