Researchers discover how stealthy HIV protein gets into cells

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A multidisciplinary team -- graduate student Abhijit Mishra left materials science and engineering professor Gerard Wong and postdoctoral researcher Vernita Gordon -- has solved the mystery of how a stealthy HIV protein gets into cells. They are stan ...
A multidisciplinary team -- graduate student Abhijit Mishra, left; materials science and engineering professor Gerard Wong; and postdoctoral researcher Vernita Gordon -- has solved the mystery of how a stealthy HIV protein gets into cells. They are standing next to a small angle X-ray spectrometer. Their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety of membrane types. Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau

Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn’t know how it worked. A multidisciplinary team from the University of Illinois has solved the mystery, and their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety of membrane types. A paper describing their findings appears this month in Angewandte Chemie.


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