Assembly of HIV-1, which causes AIDS, takes place on the inner plasma membrane leaflet of infected cells, a geometric building process that creates hexamers out of trimers of the viral Gag protein, as ...
Seeing a glycoprotein on the envelope of the HIV virus snap open and shut in mere millionths of a second is giving investigators a new handle on the surface of the virus that could lead to broadly ...
LA JOLLA, CA—You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8 percent of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a souvenir from our ...
The envelope protein from SARS-CoV-2 (E) is a single pass transmembrane protein which accumulates in the endoplasmic reticulum golgi intermediate compartment in host cells, where it acts as a ...
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from different countries demonstrated the composition and importance of severe acute respiratory ...
As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly cargo of genetic code, there’s a spectacularly brief moment in which a tiny piece of its surface snaps open to ...