HIV Replication

Question 1

How does HIV replication take place?

Answer 1

1. ) attachment protein attaches to a receptor molecule on the cell membrane of the host helper T-cell
2. ) Capsid released, uncoats and releases RNA into the cells cytoplasm
3. ) inside the cell, reverse transcription takes place to make a complementary strand of DNA from the viral RNA template
4. ) From this, double stranded DNA is made and inserted into the human DNA
5. ) Host cell enzymes used to make viral proteins from the viral DNA found within the human DNA
6. ) Viral proteins are assembled into new viruses, which bud from the cell and go on to infect other cells