Interestingly, our infection analysis revealed that more profound infection defects were found for all three IN C-terminal mutant viruses KK215,9AA, KK240,4AE and RK263,4AA than D64E mutant virus in Hela-CD4-CCR5-β-Gal cells, dividing and non-dividing C8166 T cells (Fig. 3 and 4). Here, CD44 is linked to infection.