Our group reveals details of how HIV-1 becomes infectious.

The article “Dynamic Regulation of HIV-1 Capsid Interaction with the Restriction Factor TRIM5α” was published Oct. 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to Quinn, Polenova and Perilla, the authors are Mingzhang Wang, Matthew P. Fritz, Brent Runge and Chaoyi Xu, all doctoral students at UD, and Jinwoo Ahn and Angela M. Gronenborn of the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions and the Department of Structural Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Gronenborn is a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Rosalind Franklin Professor and chair of the Department of Structural Biology. She is the director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, which brings together high-caliber scientists and facilities to study the HIV virus and its interactions with host cell proteins.