“…It has recently been shown that sequences inside the V3 loop known to influence tropism (17,21,44,56,61,75,80,85,87) and post-CD4 binding events (7,40,45,64) also influence coreceptor usage (22,33,67), formation of the CD4-CCR-5-gp120 ternary complex (81,88), and sensitivity to -chemokine-mediated inhibition of entry (27,46). The V3 loop is therefore a candidate region for interaction with CCR-5 but is probably not the only Env region involved.…”