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HIV virion

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HIV virion
Virology A virion with a 100 nm in diameter lipid envelope surrounding a dense cylindrical nucleoid containing core proteins, reverse transcriptase and a genome with sequence similarity to non-cell-transforming lentiviridae–eg, visna and caprine encephalitis viruses; envelope proteins gp41, gp120; nucelocapsid proteins p24, p17, p9, p7


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These particles contain Env anchored to the viral envelope, thus retaining native conformation, and although they neither replicate nor contain the HIV genome, they do closely resemble intact HIV virions (see Figure).
The role of coinfection by HIV in the transformed cells of this case is unclear Some authors have reported increased HIV virion expression in cells infected by EBV.
Fusion of the HIV virion with the human cell is one of the earliest steps in the HIV life cycle.
 
 
 
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