Cell to Cell Transmission (VIDEO)

Rockefeller University

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When HIV infects a cell, it programs the cell to express the viral protein Env, which the virus uses to spread to neighboring cells. Above, Env (red) produced by one infected cell has recruited other, uninfected cells, causing them to fuse, and their nuclei (blue) to cluster.

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