Cytoplasmic Tail of gp41 (IMAGE)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Cytoplasmic Tail of gp41

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The structures of three membrane-associated cytoplasmic tails of gp41 are shown in red and orange, from this illustration of the trimeric spike structure. The rest of this HIV-1 envelope protein, which is docked on a gray membrane, are the structures of gp120 and gp41, shown in green, and the transmembrane segment, shown in blue.

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Jamil Saad

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