The solution of the virus enzyme structure ... To piece together the retrovirus enzyme structure, Cooper said, gamers used a new Alignment Tool for the first time to copy parts of know molecules ...

Integrase is an essential retroviral enzyme that binds both termini of linear viral DNA and inserts them into a host cell chromosome. The structure of full-length retroviral integrase, either ...

If the virus invades a nonreproductive cell, infection may spread, but viral DNA will die with the host. A retrovirus is called ... gene function and genome structure, they can influence the ...

Is working to synthesize such components to block retrovirus nucleic acid expression and oncogenes ... In 1985, his group became the first to solve the structure of an animal virus when it mapped the ...

Such enzymes, known as retroviral proteases, play a key role in the virus' spread — and if medical researchers can figure out their structure, they could conceivably design drugs to stop the ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their ...

Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, have ...

HIV anti-retroviral therapy is considered a treatment ... "It's a deceptively dormant virus," says immunovirologist Daniel Kaufmann of the University Hospital of Lausanne, the University of ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations ... Scientists report that a copy of the virus is captured by a host gene, and the germ cells process the product of this ...

Feline immunodeficiency virus, or cat FIV, is a retrovirus infection first discovered in cats in the U.S. The virus is often referred to as cat HIV or cat AIDS because it has a similar effect on ...