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 ...

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 ...

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

We can become infected with a small number of virus particles ... 42% of the human genome (Lander et al. 2001) and can move within the genome via an RNA intermediate. Like retroviruses ...

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

Smuggling its genome ... for HIV to infect its host, but entering the cell’s control center is no easy feat. Molecules must pass through tightly-regulated nuclear pores on the backs of specialized ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Paul Sharp and colleagues from the University of Nottingham Queens Medical Centre in England compared full-length genome ... residue of HIV. 1 The findings are important for two reasons: "in this ...