Cyclophilin A and the HIV Capsid (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Cyclophilin A and the HIV Capsid

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The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the cell undetected.

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Graphic by Juan Perilla

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