We have used a ribonuclease protection assay to investigate RNase H cleavage of HIV-1 mRNA mediated by phosphorothioate antisense oligonucleotides complementary to the gag region of the HIV-1 genome in vitro. Cell lysate experiments in H9 and U937 cells chronically infected with HIV-1 IIIB showed RNase H cleavage of unspliced gag message but no cleavage of spliced message which did not contain ...

The edit distance between two graphs on the same labeled vertex set is the symmetric difference of the edge sets. The distance between a graph, G, and a hereditary property, H, is the minimum of the distance between G and each G′ ∈ H. The edit distance function of H is a function of p ∈ [0, 1] and is the limit of the maximum normalized distance between a graph of density p and H. This paper dev...

Live bird markets (LBMs), being a potential source of avian influenza virus, require effective environmental surveillance management. In our study, a total of 2865 environmental samples were collected from 292 LBMs during the 2015-2016 human influenza season from 10 cities in Zhejiang province, China. The samples were tested by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Field in...

Although wild ducks are known to be a major reservoir for avian influenza viruses (AIV), there are few recent published reports of surveillance directed at this group. Predominant AIV hemagglutinin (HA) subtypes reported in previous studies of ducks in North America include H3, H4, and H6, with the H5, H7, and H9 subtypes not well represented in these host populations. The objective of this stu...

Single-cycle infections have been used to study the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) life cycle in CD4+ T-cell lines that differ in their permissiveness for infection. In single-cycle infections of highly permissive C8166 cells, 50% of the infectious units escaped being blocked by a monoclonal antibody against the virus binding site on CD4 (leu3a) within 30 min. In contrast, 50% of t...

H9N2 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are highly prevalent and of low pathogenicity in domestic poultry. These viruses show a high genetic compatibility with other subtypes of AIVs and have been involved in the genesis of H5N1, H7N9 and H10N8 viruses causing severe infection in humans. The first case of human infection with H9N2 viruses in Hunan province of China have been confirmed in November 2...

Interactions between T cells and epithelial cells of the thymus are essential for normal T cell development, and interactions between T cells and skin epidermal keratinocytes occur in the context of inflammatory skin diseases and cutaneous T cell malignancies. On the basis of observations that the T cell ALL cell line, HSB, bound to IFN-gamma activated epidermal keratinocytes (41 +/- 5% of EK w...

The data presented here pertain to the research article entitled "Proteome Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Organelles" (Shekariet al., 2017 [1]). In the present article we endeavour to locate new proteins and pathways in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) by mass spectrometry and bioinformatics analysis. We have analyzed total and mitochondrial proteins extracted from three biological rep...

H9N2 avian influenza virus is a major cause of poultry production loss across Asia leading to the wide use of vaccines. Efficacy of vaccines is often compromised due to the rapid emergence of antigenic variants. To improve the effectiveness of vaccines in the field, a better understanding of the antigenic epitopes of the major antigen, hemagglutinin, is required. To address this, a panel of nin...

The kinetics of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-induced cell death were investigated in cell-to-cell and cell-free models of virus transmission. Cocultivation of HIV-1 chronically infected H9 donor cells with uninfected H9 recipient cells resulted in rapid induction of programmed cell death. Within 8 h, apoptotic chromatin condensation was identified by histologic staining. In addit...