RETROVIRUS BUDDING

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other retroviruses acquire their envelopes and spread infection by budding through the limiting membranes of producer cells. To facilitate budding, retroviruses usurp a cellular pathway that is normally used to create vesicles that bud into late endosomal compartments called multivesicular bodies (MVB). Research on yeast and human MVB biogenesis has led to the identification...

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