HIV/AIDS
Wuhan University, College of Life Sciences details research in HIV/AIDS
Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 5th, 2007
A report, "Conformation of trimeric envelope glycoproteins: the CD4-dependent membrane fusion mechanism of HIV-1," is newly published data in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. "The HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins are assembled by the trimeric gp120s and gp41s proteins. The gp120 binds sequentially to CD4 and coreceptor for initiating virus entry," scientists writing in the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics report.
"Because of noncovalent interaction and heavy glycosylation for envelope glycoproteins, it is highly difficult to determine entire envelope glycoproteins structure now. Such question extremely limits our good understanding...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-09-05)
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