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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian macaques that helps prevent infection by HIV-like lentiviruses...
...gene, TRIM5-CypA, produces a protein that is a fusion between two existing proteins—TRIM5 and CypA. TRIM5 binds to viruses related to HIV and destroys them while viruses use the CypA protein to shield themselves from the host cell, said Medical School professor Shawn P. O’Neil, one of the authors of the study...
Because the CypA protein attracts HIV-like viruses and the TRIM5 protein destroys them, the fused protein “might be able to target lentiviruses...
...protein very effectively prevents owl monkeys from being affected by HIV and other related lentiviruses,” O’Neil said...
...What was your lowest point as commissioner, and your highest point? -Luiz Dias, Fort Worth, TexasThe worst has probably been having to suspend players for life for failing drug tests. Another was being at the announcement that Magic [Johnson] was HIV positive, when we expected to lose him. [The best] has been watching the U.S. and the world embrace the athletes of the NBA, who had earlier been described as "too black" for us to succeed...