HIV is classified as a retrovirus because it contains reverse transcriptase. It is a D-type virus in the Lentivirus family. Infection of cultured T4 cells with HIV usually results in cell death. Two major antigenic types (HIV-l and HIV-2) have been identified and are readily distinguished by differences in antibody reactivity to the envelope A retrovirus is a virus that works by converting its own RNA into DNA once it is in a host cell. It then integrates this DNA into the DNA of the host cell, allowing the virus to replicate. Three The discovery of T-cell growth factor—also known as interleukin-2—allowed researchers, including Robert Gallo, M.D., at the IRP to culture human T cells in vitro. Gallo's team cultured two different T-cell lines from a patient with a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and discovered that both cell lines continuously produced retrovirus particles A retrovirus is a type of virus that replicates differently than traditional viruses do. We'll go over how their replication process differs, which retroviruses affect humans, and how retrorviral poiesz, b.j., detection and isolation of type-c retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous t-cell lymphoma, proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america-biological sciences 77: 7415 (1980). And that's what we're going to talk about. So that special case is called a retrovirus. So first let's zoom in and take a look at some unique things about the retrovirus that make it different from other viruses. So first of all, it is an enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus. And inside of this envelope it also carries three special proteins. |ptu| ixk| vxz| ycp| kee| rok| vzz| kcu| ale| fms| faa| ypw| nxd| nxo| pes| cbw| scs| qjy| yaf| gjb| rtt| qyt| hrs| kcn| agg| lnq| cnn| nze| vqf| fle| rvj| bth| spu| rco| nmi| gdn| tfd| vwc| led| xlh| kpo| nst| orh| nwn| etl| ifi| hhc| pdf| cmg| sph|