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CO-INFECTIONS AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION

[134P] ACTIVE HHV-6 INFECTION DOES NOT CORRELATE WITH HIV DISEASE PROGRESSION IN A KENYAN COMMERCIAL SEXWORKER COHORT
Sandra Koesters¹, Graham Tipples², Michael Gray², Keith R Fowke^1
1Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba; ²National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba

[135P] IMPLICATION OF NUCLEAR FACTOR-kB (NF-kB) AND NUCLEAR FACTOR OF ACTIVATED T-CELLS (NFAT) IN THE INDUCTION OF THE LONG TERMINAL REPEAT REGIONS (LTR) OF THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE-1 BY THE HTLV-I VIRAL PROTEIN Tax
Marie-Ève Paré, Michel J Tremblay, Benoit Barbeau
Infectious Disease Research Center, Quebec

[136P] TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION OF THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 LONG TERMINAL REPEAT OCCURS BY NOVEL COOPERATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS c-MYC, YY-1, AND LSF
A Stojanova^1,2, SK Oster^4,5, LZ Penn^4,5, RJ Germinario^1,2,3
1Lady Davis Institute SMBD Jewish General Hospital; ²Department of Biology, Concordia University; ³Department of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; ⁴Ontario Cancer Institute; ⁵Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[137P] ROLE OF THE ENHANCER-BOUND FACTORS IN THE ACTIVATION OF THE DIFFERENT HIV-1 LTR CLADES
B Barbeau¹, A-M Lemieux¹, MJTremblay¹, MH Naghavi^2
1Infectious Diseases Research Center, CHUQ, CHUL building, Ste-Foy, Quebec; ²Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge/Stockholm, Sweden