cells and macrophages. infection and expression of defective virus in T defective virus and are required for efficient In murine AIDS, B cells are early targets of

spleens ofmutantmiceuntil 6weekspostinfection. Onprolongedexposuresofthesameblot,signals ofBM5def-related sequenceswerefoundat extremelylowlevels at the earlier time points (data not shown).Althoughunlikely, it wasformallypossible thatmutantmicemight carry strain 129 genes linked to the mutant Ig heavy-chain locus that could inhibit spread andexpression ofdefec-tive virus and induction of disease when present in thehomozygous state in B6*

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