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E L Altschuler

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PubMed2000

Plague as HIV vaccine adjuvant.

Individuals homozygous for a 32-basepair deletion mutation (null mutation) in CCR5, a chemokine receptor, are nearly immune to developing HIV infection. Recently based on molecular dating evidence it has been proposed that the bacterium Yersinia pestis, cause of plague, may have been the selective pressure which selected for a high prevalence of the 32-basepair null mutation. An association of a robust chemokine response with HIV vaccine efficacy has recently been shown. I suggest that Y. pestis may be a useful adjuvant in an HIV vaccine protocol by stimulating a vigorous chemokine response.

AIDS Vaccines↗
PubMed2000

Is JC polyoma virus the cause of ulcerative colitis and multiple sclerosis?

JC polyoma virus (JCV) is known to be the cause of the degenerative central nervous system white matter disease progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy. Recently, JCV DNA has unexpectedly been found in significant quantity in normal colon mucosa and in tissue from colonic carcinomas, with increased quantities in the cancerous tissues. The yield of JCV DNA was increased by use of topoisomerase I, possibly because the JCV DNA was negatively supercoiled. The causes of ulcerative colitis (in which colon cancer is common) and multiple sclerosis are not known. Here I suggest that JCV may play a role in the pathogenesis of these diseases, and discuss methods for testing this hypothesis.

Colitis, Ulcerative↗