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. 2015 Mar 18;10(3):e0119879. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119879

Fig 3. Neutralization of RRR-to-KKK V3 loop mutants by SDF-1α, RANTES.

Fig 3

(a) For each NL-952.1, NL-952.2 and NL-952.3 virus all eight mutants (RRR-to-KKK) were tested for neutralization by SDF-1α. GHOST-X4 cells were infected with an amount of virus representing about 100 ffu. SDF-1α was added to a final concentration of 125, 250, 500 and 1000 ng/ml. (b) Neutralization by RANTES was carried out for X4R5-dualtropic NL-952.1 mutants with the exception of the X4-monotropic mutant RRR, since the RRR mutant does not show any viral growth in GHOST-R5 cells (infection = 0% at RANTES 0 ng/ml). Also all NL-952.2 and NL-952.3 mutants did not replicate in GHOST-R5 cells and therefore could not be tested for neutralization by RANTES.