To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red). In an immature virus particle, the matrix proteins form a lose lattice ...

What about viruses? Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This ...

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ... So we can't really get a good structure of it." ...

They graphically represent the life cycle of HIV-1, from the initial binding of the viral particle onto a host cell (Viral Entry), through insinuation into the host cell's nucleus to spark the ...

Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate.

The human immune deficiency virus (HIV) first entered public consciousness ... and they form a new structure," said Chelico. "APOBEC proteins are part of a natural defense system against viruses ...

This molecule, known as EBC-46, works by temporarily activating the HIV virus in the affected cells as they hide so that the body’s immune system can remove the virus, according to a study published ...

In an interview with the AP, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima called on the Trump Administration not to cut off ...

Figure 1: Structural organization of Gag-Pol polyprotein in HIV-1. We speculated that the ... for the regulation of protease activity in the virus replication cycle. Figure 2: Protease precursor ...