Sequence of simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkey, a new member of the HIV/SIV group
Authors:
- Tomoyuki MiuraTMTomoyuki Miura
- Akira HasegawaAHAkira Hasegawa
- Shigeru MorikawaSMShigeru Morikawa
- Hajime TsujimotoHTHajime Tsujimoto
- Keizaburo MikiKMKeizaburo Miki
- Takashi KitamuraTKTakashi Kitamura
- Masanori HayamiMHMasanori Hayami
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 333 (6172) , 457-461
Abstract
Some wild African green monkeys are known to be naturally infected with a retrovirus related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) without having any apparent symptoms of an AIDS-like disease. This simian immunodeficiency virus, designated SIVAGM, may be helpful in clarifying the evolution and pathogenicity of HIV. Some virus strains that were previously reported to be isolated from African green monkeys were shown to be laboratory contaminations of SIVMAC (SIV from a rhesus macaque) Here we report the complete DNA sequence of authentic SIVAGM, which was isolated from a naturally infected African green monkey of Kenyan origin. Comparison of the genome of SIVAGM with those of known HIV/SIVs indicates that the virus is a new simian lentivirus that is approximately equally distantly related to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in contrast to SIVMAC, which is much closer to HIV-2 than to HIV-1 (refs 5, 9).Keywords
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