Scientists use pore-forming toxin to punch holes in the membrane of HIV virus-like particles, making the capsid accessible to external cell factors and small molecules.
A new technique using electron tomography and subtomogram averaging at Diamond's electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), has solved the structure of the HIV capsid alone and in complex with host factors.
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