To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red).

However, this treatment does not result in the total eradication of HIV. Rather, the virus is thought to remain ... molecular nature of the latent viral genome. HIV replication is linked to ...

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 ...

After entering an immune cell, HIV's single-stranded RNA genome is reverse-transcribed into double-stranded DNA, which is how our cells store genetic information. The virus' genome is incorporated ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Smuggling its genome into the nucleus is essential for HIV to infect its host, but entering the cell’s control center is no easy feat. Molecules must pass through ...

This means that they focused on parts of the virus genome that stay the same ... managing to completely inactivate HIV with a ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

HIV-1 strains in humans arose from three independent ape-to-human transmissions in the early 20th century, but the viral adaptation in humans remained unknown until now. Paul Sharp and colleagues from ...

such as HIV, encode additional trans-regulating factors or contain cis-regulating elements, thereby influencing the type and amount of transcribed RNA. The whole viral genome is transcribed and ...