The discovery of this new "trick" used by HIV to survive suggests that in an infected organism may be much more active than thought viirus WORDS CHIAVEHivreplicazione viraleUna new mode of replication of the retrovirus was del'Hiv discovery by researchers at New York University, illustrating their findings in an article published in the journal Retrovirology. We know that on average only one in a hundred HIV virus is able to successfully complete the integration of its genetic material into the host cell, taking a step essential in order to reproduce. But now a study conducted by a team of researchers led by David N. Levy revealed the existence of a cooperative mechanism that allows you to replicate to some of the remaining 99 viruses, which have also their part in the development of AIDS. According to Levy, HIV functions almost like a community in which the virus can integrate into the DNA of the cell help the least efficient supply of proteins that are necessary for their riprodursi.Questi virus, which went so far considered "lost" and had no influence on the development of the disease just because of the lack of integration may actually even be an advantage over others because, skipping some steps in the replication process, they reproduce faster. "Cooperation between different viruses is another of the tricks used by HIV to survive and it opens the possibility to the fact that there are many in the body viirus more active than previously thought. Understanding how they interact with each other is one of the keys to understanding how HIV evolves and survives the immune response, and we hope that eventually lead us to develop new ways to treat the infection, "Federico Cesareo
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