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1
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What cells are specialised for type I interferon production early in viral infection?

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plasmacytoid DCs

2
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What is the benefit of a segmented genome?

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the ability ot reassort during viral replication

3
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What is the fucntion of hemagglutinin on influenza?

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repsonseibl for viral binding to and entry into cells

4
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What is antigenic drift?

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emergence of point mutations to alter binding sites– can grow in cell immune to previous strain but as T cells and some antibodies can recognise epitopes that have not been altered will only get a mild disease

5
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Waht is antigenic shift?

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reassortment of the segmented RNA genomes of 2 different influenza viruses when they are able to infect the same cell reuslting in large changes in their haemagglutinin so T cells and antibodies to previous infections are not protective

6
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What is a neutralising antibody?

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prevent the virus from binding and infecting cells

7
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What is dislocation?

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when viruses catalyse the degradation of newly synthesised MHC-I molecules by initiating hte pathway normall used to degrade misfoleded ER proteins by directing them back into the cytosol and the ERAD pathway for disposal

8
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How does CMV evade NK cytolysis?

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produces a homolog of HLA class I - UL18 which binds LIR-1 on nk cells providing an inhibitory signal

9
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What is the function of cytosolic ICP47 produced by herpes simplex?

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prevents peptides from binding to TAP in the cytosol

10
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What is hte function of US6 protein produced by CMV?

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interferes with the ATP-dependent transfer of peptides through TAP

11
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What is the function of E19 produced by adenovirus?

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competes with tapasin and inhibits peptide loading onto nascent MHC-I molecules

12
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What is the function of mK3 protein produced by murine herpes simplex virus?

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directs the addition of ubiquitin subunits with K48 linkages resulting in degradation via proteasome

13
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What cytokine homolog does CMV use to impair antiviral responses?

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cmvIL-10 which downregulates pro-inflammatory cytokines

14
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What do herpes viruses express in order to undergo a lysogenic phase?

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express the latency associated transcript

15
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What is the function of the latency associated transcript?

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suppresses the transcription of the remaining viral genome and produces factors that interfere with host cell apoptosis

16
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How does EBV enter B cells?

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using CD21 (CR2) and MHC-II

17
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What is the function of EBNA1 produced by EBV?

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interacts with teh proteasome to prevents its own degradation into peptides that would otherwise elicit a T cell repsonse

18
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What are the differences between HIV-1 and HIV-2?

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HIV-2 is only really found in West Africa; HIV-1 replicates to higher viral loads in the blood and is more easily transmitted, HIV-2 is rarley vertically transmitted

19
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what is the most common variant of HIV-1?

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group M

20
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What makes up the HIV viral spike?

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gp120/gp41

21
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What is the function of the RNA transcripts produced from the integrated viral DNA?

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mRNAs to direct synthesis of viral proteins and the RNA genomes of new viral particles

22
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What group of viruses does HIV belong to?

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lentiviruses

23
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What are the 3 cell targets of HIV?

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CD4 T cells; macrophages and DCs

24
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What is cellular tropism?

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its ability to enter particular cell types

25
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What determines HIV’s cellular tropism?

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expression of specific receptors fro the virus on the surface of those cells

26
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What are the major coreceptors for gp120 fusion and entry?

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CCR5 and CXCR4

27
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Which cells predominantly express CCR5?

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subsets of effector memory CD4 T cells; DCs and macropahges

28
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Which cells predominantly express CXCR4?

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naive and central memory CD4 T cells

29
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What happens when gp120 binds CD4?

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undergoes a conformational change that exposes a high-affinity site that is bound by the coreceptor

30
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What does binding of the coreceptor to gp120 cause?

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gp41 unfolds and inserts a portion of its structure (fusion peptide) inot the plasma membrane of hte target cell

31
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What is found in the viral nucleocaspid?

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viral genome and associated viral proteins

32
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How many genes does HIV have?

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9

33
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What is the form of DNA produced by reverse transcriptase?

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cDNA

34
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What is used by integrase to integrate the cDNA into host DNA?

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LTRs that reside at each end of the viral genome

35
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What is the integrated cDNA copy known as?

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provirus

36
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What is the function of the gag gene?

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encodes structural proteins of the viral nucleocapsid core

37
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What is the function of pol?

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encodes enzymes involved in viral replication

38
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What is the function of env gene?

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encodes viral envelope glycoprotein

39
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What 3 enzymes does pol encode?

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reverse transcriptase; integrase; viral protease

40
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How are gag and pol translated?

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as long polypeptide chains that are then cleaved by pol

41
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What is the product of the env gene?

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gp160

42
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What is gp160 cleaved into?

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gp120 and gp41

43
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What initiates transcription of hte provirus following integration?

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host transcription factors which are induced during activation

44
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What is the function of Tat?

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enhances transcription from hte provirus and binds to the RNA transcripts, stabilising them in a form that can be translated

45
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What is the function of Rev?

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binds to singly spliced or unspliced transcripts and transports them to the cytosol

46
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What si the long-lived latency of HIV related to?

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it is a consequence of the toprism of the virus for CD4 T cells

47
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What is the function of vif?

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affects particle infectivity

48
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What is the function of viral protein R?

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transport of DNA to nucleus, augments virion production, cell cycle arrest

49
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What is the function of viral protein U?

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promotes intracellular degradation of CD4 and enhances release of virus from cell membrane

50
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What is the function of nef?

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augments viral replication in vivo and in vitro. decreases Cd4, MHC-I and II expression

51
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What 2 transcription factors can initiate transcription of the viral genome?

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NFkB and NFAT

52
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How may activation of NFkB take place independetly of antigen?

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activation of effector-memory T cells can occur by cytokines

53
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How does Tat work?

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binds to a transcriptional activation region in the LTR which recruits cellular cyclin T1 and its partner, CDK9 to form a complex which phosphoryaltes RNA polymerase and enchanes its ability to generate full-length transcripts of the vrial genome

54
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How does Rev work?

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binds to Rev response element- a specific viral RNA sequences to prevent degradation of incompletely spliced mRNA transcripts by the host

55
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How does Nef augment viral replication?

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lowers the threshold for TCR signalling and downregulates CTLA-4 which results in greater and more sustained T cell activation that promotes viral replication

56
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How does Vif work?

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acts to overcome a cytidine deaminase called APOBEC which catalyzes the conversion od deoxycytidine to deoxyuridine in reverse transcribed viral cDNA thereby destroying its ability to encode protein

57
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How does Vpu work?

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required to overcome tetherin which inserts into both the plasma membrane of the host cell and the envelope of hte mature virion to block its release

58
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How does Vpr work?

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target restriction factor SAMHD1, which limits the intracellular pool of deoxynucleotides available for viral cDNA synthesis

59
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In what forms can the virus be transmitted?

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free infectious particles or via infected cells for which the virus has tropism

60
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Why does inital viral replication favoured in Th1 and Th17 cells?

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they express CCR5- naive T cells and Th2 don’t

61
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What strains of virus are typically required for transmission and why?

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CCR5-tropic R5 strains as CCR5 dominates on CD4-expressing immune cells resident at the major sites of viral transmission;epithelial cells of the rectum and endocervix express CCR5 so R5 can translocate

62
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How can HIV bind to DCs?

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binding of viral gp120 to CTLRs eg langerin; mannse receptor and DC SIGN– allows HIV to travel to lymph nodes

63
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Where do the highest number of CD4 T cells in the body reside?

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GALT

64
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How may the depletion of immune cells in the gut coumpound rapid production of virus in the GALT?

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result in barrier breakdown and translocation of constituents of the microbiota which increases immune cell activation

65
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What is the viral set point?

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level of virus that persists in the blood plasma after development of CTL response and antibody production which occurs during the acute phase to control high viraemia

66
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What is the viral set point indicative of?

A

future disease progression

67
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What does the strong selectie pressure of hte antiviral immune response result in?

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selection for HIV escape mutants that are no longer detected by the adaptive immune cells- many viral variants

68
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What happens to the dominanat viral type?

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in about 50% it swithces from R5 to X4 variants which results in progression to AIDs

69
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What are the overall functions of the R5 and X4 variants?

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R5 variants are critical for HIV transmission whereas X4 variants that emerge under selective pressure contribute to disease progression

70
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What is the correlation between the strength of CD4 T cell proliferative responses to HIV antigen and viral load?

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inverse

71
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What are the 2 important aspects of hte antibody resposne to HIV?

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generating neutralising antibody against gp120 and gp41 in order to block viral attachment or entry; generating nonneutralising antibodies that target infected cells for ADCC

72
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What are broadly neutralising antibodies?

A

antibodies able to block infection by multiple viral strains

73
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Why is homozygosity of HLA class I alleles associated with more rapid disease progression?

A

T cell response to infection is less diverse

74
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Give examples of HLA class I alleles associated with greater prognosis?

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HLA-B57; HLA-b27; HLA-B13- delay HIV-1 escape

75
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Why do ARTs not prevent the release of virus?

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cells that are already infected as provirus is already established so reverse transcriptase and integrase aren’t needed and inhibition of protease does not stop virus being released

76
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What causes the increase in cD4 T cells with HAART?

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redistribution of CD4 T memory cells from lymphoid tissues into circulation as viral replication is controlled; reduction in immune activation so reduces killing of infected CD4 T cells by CD8 cells; emergence of naive T cells from the thymuc

77
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What is the function of APOBEC?>

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causes extensive mutation of newly formed HIV cDNA to destroy its coding and replicative capacity

78
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What are quasi-species?

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variants of HIV that develop from a single foudner virus

79
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Which viruses share the formation of quasi-species?

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all lentiviruses

80
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which HIV gene is respondible for inhibiting the restriction factor SAMHD1?

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Vpr