HIV/AIDS Research
Study examines mechanism by which some HIV-infected patients naturally defeat the virus
Published in AIDS Weekly, November 20th, 2006
For years researchers have been trying to understand how a few HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that otherwise overwhelms the immune system. Last year, a research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center confirmed that in a few HIV patients, called long-term non-progressors, maintain higher than normal levels of the enzyme called APOBEC-3G (A3G) in their white blood cells, which function to stave off infections. Now, the same group has teamed up with a structural biologist to provide the first look at the A3G structure.
Such information represents an early step toward the design of a new class of drugs that could afford to all the same natural...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-11-20)
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