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  • Study offers clearest picture yet of how HIV defeats a cellular defender

    Mar 4, 2016 10:15 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of physics professor Klaus Schulten postdoctoral researcher Juan Perilla

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    A new study offers the first atomic-scale view of an interaction between the HIV capsid – the protein coat that shepherds HIV into the nucleus of human cells – and a host protein known as cyclophilin A.