HIV-1 internalization in polarized human trophoblasts occurs through a peculiar endocytic pathway

Michel J Tremblay and Gaël Vidricaire

Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval, and Département de Biologie médicale, Université Laval, Québec (QC), Canada

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from Fourth Dominique Dormont International Conference. Host-Pathogen Interactions in Chronic Infections
Paris, France. 13-15 December 2007

Retrovirology 2008, 5(Suppl 1):O5doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-S1-O5


Published:	9 April 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

In human trophoblastic cells, a correlation between early endosomal trafficking of HIV-1 and virus infection was previously documented. However, if HIV-1 is massively internalized in these cells, the endocytic pathway(s) responsible for viral uptake is still undefined.