How HIV smuggles its genetic material into the cell nucleus

Credit: Johannes Pauly / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

The artist’s impression shows how the HIV capsid penetrates the jelly-like permeability barrier of a nuclear pore. To smuggle its genome through this defense line into the cell nucleus, it has evolved into a molecular transporter.

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