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Descriptor English: Genes, vpu
Descriptor Spanish: Genes vpu
Descriptor genes vpu
Scope note: Secuencias de ADN que constituyen la región codificadora de la proteína vpu, reguladora del VIH (proteína viral U), que incrementa considerablemente la exportación de partículas virales de las células infectadas. Los genes vpu no existen en el VIH-2 ni en el VIRUS DE LA INMUNODEFICIENCIA DE LOS SIMIOS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Genes vpu
Descriptor French: Gènes vpu
Entry term(s): Gene, vpu
vpu Gene
vpu Genes
Tree number(s): G05.360.340.024.340.364.875.900
G05.360.340.024.340.425.580
G05.360.340.358.024.875.900
G05.360.340.358.840.500.900
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016338
Scope note: DNA sequences that form the coding region for the HIV-1 regulatory protein vpu (viral protein U) that greatly increases the export of virus particles from infected cells. The vpu genes are not present in HIV-2 or SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS.
Annotation: vpu stands for "Viral Protein U"
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Genes, Viral (1988-1990)
Public MeSH Note: 91
History Note: 91
DeCS ID: 28965
Unique ID: D016338
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1990/05/29
Revision Date: 2015/07/13
Genes, vpu - Preferred
Concept UI M0024971
Scope note DNA sequences that form the coding region for the HIV-1 regulatory protein vpu (viral protein U) that greatly increases the export of virus particles from infected cells. The vpu genes are not present in HIV-2 or SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS.
Preferred term Genes, vpu
Entry term(s) Gene, vpu
vpu Gene
vpu Genes



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