A Hard Way to the Nucleus

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As a member of the Retrovirus family, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a causative agent of AIDS, replicates by integrating its genome into the host cell's nuclear DNA. However, in contrast to most retroviruses that depend on mitotic dissolution of the nuclear envelope to gain access to the host cell's genome, the HIV pre-integration complex can enter the nucleus of the target cell during the interphase. Such...

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