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Carbohydrate components of human immunodeficiency viruses type I and II
U Schumacher1, J Eberle, H Wolf
1Anatomische Anstalt, University of Munich, FRG.
Acta Histochemica. Supplementband
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The terminal carbohydrate residues of HIV I and II were detected by ferritin labeled lectins in electron microscopy. Different cell lines, which were infected with HIV I and II, expressed different terminal carbohydrate residues, which could also be detected on the viral envelope by electronmicroscopy. Especially N-Acetylgalactosamine residues were detected by Vicia villosa agglutinin only on Jurkat cells. This may have functional implications, since this lectin recognizes contrasuppressor T cells.