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Augmentation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gene expression by tumor necrosis factor alpha
T Okamoto1, T Matsuyama, S Mori
1Virology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
It is now well established that cytokines are involved in the regulation of gene expression from HIV-1 LTR. The present study provides evidence that TNF-alpha stimulates HIV-1 gene expression and that the enhancer sequence within the HIV-1 LTR is involved in the stimulation. These results support the idea that immunologic stimulation and infection may trigger the development of clinical AIDS in individuals latently infected with HIV-1.