Abstract
Harris et al. show that the envelope glycoproteins of a rare HIV-2UC1 strain evolved to balance low affinity to the CD4 receptor with an improved, long-lived, and readily triggerable molecular machinery to mediate virus entry.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 107749 |
Journal | Cell reports |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 9 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- HIV envelope glycoproteins
- binding kinetics
- long-lived activation state
- molecular mechanism of HIV entry