Figure 6
From: Akt inhibitors as an HIV-1 infected macrophage-specific anti-viral therapy
SIV Tat also exerts a cytoprotective effect. (A) Sequence comparison of the cysteine-rich and basic domains from HIV-1 YU-2, SIV mac239 and SIV PBJ. Numbers indicate residues on the first amino acids of the shown sequences. Colored residues in HIV-1 Tat were mutated in this study. (B) CHME5 cells were cotransfected with a plasmid encoding GFP and constructs expressing the first exon of HIV-1 Tat (psvTat72), SIV-PBJ Tat, or with an empty plasmid (pcDNA3.1) using Lipofectamine. Cells were then treated with LPS/CHX and analyzed for cell death. Bright fields (BF) and merged (red+green) fields are shown. Transfected cells are GFP+ cells (green), dead cells (red). The percentage of cell death induced in GFP+, EthD+ cells is shown with the SD from three independent experiments.