Shape of things to come: Structure of HIV coat could lead to new drugs
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Structural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome and identified in it a 'seam' of functional importance that previously went unrecognised. Those findings, reported today in Cell, could point the way to new treatments for blocking HIV infection...