HIV Flashcards
Name 5 ways HiV can be transmitted
Sexually
Mechanically via blood
Placental
Perinatal
Post natal
Which virus is hiv closely related to and what does this virus infect
SIV
Affects chimpanzees or sooty mangabey
Which hiv strain is chimpanzee siv homolog to
Hiv 1
Which kind of things in a population made it rise in USA
Gay population
Sex workers
Needle transfer
Other stis
What type of illnesses can hiv cause
Dementia
Immunodeficiency
Which 2 enzymes does virus encode for which are in their nucleocapsid
Reverse transcriptase
Integrate
Why is RT needed
Because hiv is a diploid rna + virus
Sense strand needs RT to make cDNA first
What is the capsid protein on hiv called
P24
What is the matrix protein called which packages nucleocapsid
P17
Is hiv enveloped like influenza?
Yes
Which 2 gp are on surface
120 and 41
How does hiv enter
Gp 120 binds to CD4 receptors which cause a conformation change exposing gp 41 which then binds to ccr5 co receptor = fusion of envelope with membrane
When the envelope fuses with cell membrane what happens
Nucleocapsid is released and intregrase, rt and the diploid rna + released
What’s the first thing which happens to the rna +
It is converted to cDNA -
The rna strand is then disposed of
Which enzyme degrades rna strand after it’s been converted to cDNA
Rnase H (type of reverse transcriptase)