{"id":106596,"date":"2020-05-05T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-uncover-secret-behind-molecule-that-blocks-hiv-infection"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:48:37","slug":"scientists-uncover-secret-behind-molecule-that-blocks-hiv-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-uncover-secret-behind-molecule-that-blocks-hiv-infection","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover secret behind molecule that blocks HIV infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-secret-behind-molecule-that-blocks-hiv-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhesus macaques don\u2019t monkey around when it comes to HIV; they have a protein that effectively disables invading HIV particles.<\/p>\n<p>A group of University of Chicago scientists announced an innovative study that explains how the macaques\u2019 immune protein, called TRIM5\u03b1, works its magic. It also represents a significant step forward in the science of modeling how complex biological proteins assemble themselves, the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese proteins work together to encase the HIV capsid in a hexagonal net and restrict viral activity,\u201d said postdoctoral fellow Alvin Yu and lead author of the study, which was published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhesus macaques don\u2019t monkey around when it comes to HIV; they have a protein that effectively disables invading HIV particles. A group of University of Chicago scientists announced an innovative study that explains how the macaques\u2019 immune protein, called TRIM5\u03b1, works its magic. It also represents a significant step forward in the science of modeling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}