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Figure 1-4 SR-BI-lipoprotein intera
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53 In summary the class B scavenger
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55 In 1992 Thomssen et. al. demonst
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57 lipoprotein association promotes
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59 Figure 1-5 Lipo-viro-particle as
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61 In vitro culture medium, into wh
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2 Materials and methods. 2.1 Cell l
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Preparation of rat anti-E2 mAbs. 65
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2.4 Basic techniques. Flow cytometr
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69 6. Finally, the cells were washe
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71 (Promega, WI, USA) kits accordin
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73 proteins and are incapable of fu
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77 Figure 2-2 Electroporated Huh-7.
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79 5. Data is expressed as percenta
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81 (Invitrogen). The samples to be
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83 1. The SR-BII coding region was
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2.7 Cloning and synthesis of JFH-1
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The sequence encoding amino acids 3
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Figure 2-6 sE2 sequencing. 89 JFH-1
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91 7. Large scale transfections wer
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93 3 Results: Investigations using
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95 3.2 CHO cells expressing human S
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Figure 3-3 Ability of anti-E2 mAb t
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99 3.3 The interaction of sE2 with
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101 Figure 3-5 Position of SR-BI mu
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103 Table 3-2 Investigation of cell
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105 3.4 Expression of SR-BII in CHO
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3.5 Discussion. 107 We have demonst
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109 may offer a tool to study the i
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111 Figure 4-1A displays endogenous
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113 4.2 Exogenous expression of SR-
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115 4.3 Evidence of enhanced JFH-1
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117 4.4 SR-BI expression levels lim
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119 4.5 Murine SR-BI does not enhan
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121 4.6 SR-BI/II expression levels
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123 Figure 4-5 Over expression of S
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125 Figure 4-6 Anti-SR-BI serum inh
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127 Figure 4-7 Infection of Huh-7.5
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129 cells is largely manifested in
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131 5 Results: Identification of a
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133 Figure 5-1 JFH-1 G451R has an a
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135 Figure 5-2 CD81 dependence of J
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137 G451R sE2 with hCD81 LEL we com
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139 Figure 5-4 JFH-1 wt and G451R s
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141 demonstrated a lower dependence
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143 Figure 5-6 Relationship between
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145 flow cytometry (data not shown)
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147 5.6 Low density JFH-1 particles
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5.7 Discussion. 149 We have demonst
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151 Numerous reports have used dens
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153 demonstrate that low density JF
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155 to over express SR-BI we were a
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157 5-1), better able to engage CD8
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159 Figure 6-1 An overview of antib
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161 it is believed that ligation of
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163 Given our and other’s finding
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6.3 HCV lipo-viro-particles. 165 As
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167 represent the hyper-variable re
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169 The G451R mutation disrupts the
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7 Bibliography 171 1. Acton, S., D.
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173 include the CD81 tetraspanin an
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175 receptor class B type I and inh
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177 83. Drummer, H. E., K. A. Wilso
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179 KewalRamani, D. R. Littman, C.
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181 King. 1996. Efficient infection
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183 hepatitis C virus envelope glyc
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185 recovered chimpanzees exhibit r
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187 218. Monazahian, M., I. Bohme,
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189 243. Perez-Berna, A. J., J. Gui
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191 single-cycle production assay t
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193 298. Strickland, G. T., S. S. E
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195 Remaley, G. Csako, T. L. Eggerm
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197 2007. Scavenger receptor class