Advances in HIV-1 Assembly and Release

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Freed, Eric O. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Over the past decade, enormous progress has been made in understanding the late events in the HIV replication cycle.  This has been made possible by major advances in cell biology, virology, and structural biology.  The field continues to move forward rapidly, with important new discoveries being re...

Table of Contents:

• Structural Biology of HIV Assembly
• Cellular Trafficking Mechanisms in the Assembly and Release of HIV
• Packaging of the HIV-1 RNA Genome
• Synthesis of Functional and Variable HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins
• HIV-1 Budding
• HIV-1 Maturation
• Cell-to-Cell Transmission of HIV
• Virus Assembly as a Target for Antiretroviral Therapy.