---
id: "edwards-2014-both-orf-i"
title: "Both orf-I isoforms, p12 and p8, are required for efficient HTLV-1 infection and persistence"
authors:
  - "Cynthia Pise-Masison"
  - "Maria Fernanda de Castro-Amarante"
  - "Cody Buchmann"
  - "Yoshimi Enoso-Akahata"
  - "Claudio Fenezia"
  - "Dustin Edwards"
  - "Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara"
  - "Izabela Bialuk"
  - "Steven Jacobson"
  - "Bernardo Galvao-Castro"
  - "Antoine Gessain"
  - "Genoveffa Franchini"
venue: "Retrovirology"
year: 2014
date: "2014-01"
doi: "10.1186/1742-4690-11-s1-o13"
url: "/research/publications/10-1186-1742-4690-11-s1-o13/"
pmc: "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4044360/"
resource: "https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-11-s1-o13"
openAccess: true
license: "cc-by"
citedBy: 2
citedBySource: "OpenAlex, read 2026-09-12"
---
# Both orf-I isoforms, p12 and p8, are required for efficient HTLV-1 infection and persistence

Conference talk: HTLV-1 needs both p12 and p8 to infect and persist.