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News from reuters ...
<< LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a protein that permits the HIV virus that causes AIDS to evade the immune system.
The protein, called Nef, protects HIV-infected cells and at the same time destroys other healthy cells in the immune system, assuring that the virus will thrive.
"This reveals a real, unfortunate, elegance to HIV in terms of its ability to kill off cells that are trying to control the virus, and at the same time to defeat that same cell-death machinery in the host cell thereby allowing the virus to replicate all through the same regulatory protein," said Warner Greene, of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.
"It is a remarkably efficient and cunning strategy."
Scientists have known that healthy cells around the infected HIV cell self-destruct and that Nef played a role, but until now they didn't know how.
Greene and his colleagues have shown that Nef binds to and inhibits a protein called ASK1 which is a key to the destruction of the healthy cells.
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I wish some mod would ban this nef from the planet.
But seriously, it's interesting how these discoveries in AIDS, cancer and other diseases come out every week. I hope that soon these illnesses(sp?) would appear only in history books ...
News from reuters ...
<< LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a protein that permits the HIV virus that causes AIDS to evade the immune system.
The protein, called Nef, protects HIV-infected cells and at the same time destroys other healthy cells in the immune system, assuring that the virus will thrive.
"This reveals a real, unfortunate, elegance to HIV in terms of its ability to kill off cells that are trying to control the virus, and at the same time to defeat that same cell-death machinery in the host cell thereby allowing the virus to replicate all through the same regulatory protein," said Warner Greene, of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.
"It is a remarkably efficient and cunning strategy."
Scientists have known that healthy cells around the infected HIV cell self-destruct and that Nef played a role, but until now they didn't know how.
Greene and his colleagues have shown that Nef binds to and inhibits a protein called ASK1 which is a key to the destruction of the healthy cells.
(...)
>>
I wish some mod would ban this nef from the planet.
But seriously, it's interesting how these discoveries in AIDS, cancer and other diseases come out every week. I hope that soon these illnesses(sp?) would appear only in history books ...
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