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XMRV infection is enhanced by prostatic protein fragments

submitted by profvrr on January 28, 2010
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Tags: amyloid , prostate , virus , xmrv
Source: www.virology.ws
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Fragments of an abundant protein produced by the prostate form amyloid fibrils that enhance infection of cells by human immunodeficiency virus type 1. These fibrils, called semen-derived enhancer of virus infection (SEVI), have been found to boost infection of prostate cells by the retrovirus XMRV. Is this evidence that XMRV causes prostate cancer?
 
 

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