Uncovering how HIV assembles its lipid coat, which allows it to enter cells
The same holds true for HIV, which wraps itself in a coat of specialized lipids that ... cholesterol and sphingomyelin. A ...
来自MSN12 个月
How a novel drug pushes the HIV capsid to breaking point
HIV encases its genetic material in a protein coat to safeguard the virus as it converts its genomic RNA into DNA en route to the nucleus after entering the target cell. Developed by ...
Nature6 天
The HIV Tat protein transduction domain improves the biodistribution of β-glucuronidase ...
Recent studies showed that a peptide, the protein transduction domain (PTD) from HIV Tat, could improve the distribution of cytoplasmic reporter proteins when administered systemically as fusion ...
Medindia6 年
Understanding Viral Protein Structure Important in Better HIV Therapy
A better understanding of HIV viral protein structure could result in better HIV therapy, feel researchers who are working on this collaborative project at UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
PBS13 年
Subunit vaccine: hepatitis B
For a virus, the vaccine can contain just a piece of the protein coat that surrounds the virus's DNA (or RNA). Even small portion of a virus is sometimes enough to stimulate an immune response in ...
Nature4 年
Recombinant HIV-1 Envelope Protein for Vaccine Use - Licensing and Collaboration Opportunity
The researchers hypothesize that immunization with the prefusion, closed HIV-1 Env protein will elicit a neutralizing immune response. In pursuit of an effective vaccine to end the global HIV-1 ...