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Technique Solves HIV Capsid Structure; Could Serve as Blueprint for Capsid-Targeting Antivirals – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Scientists use pore-forming toxin to punch holes in the membrane of HIV virus-like particles, making the capsid accessible to…

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Scientists at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) at Diamond Light Source, in the U.K., have harnessed a new technique, using cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) and subtomogram averaging (STA) to solve the structure of the HIV-1 capsid alone, and in complex…

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