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. 2012;10(12):e1001454.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001454. Epub 2012 Dec 18.

How HIV sneaks aboard mature dendritic cells

Caitlin Sedwick  1
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How HIV sneaks aboard mature dendritic cells

Caitlin Sedwick. PLoS Biol. 2012.
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The receptor Siglec-1 (green) captures and retains HIV (red) within the cytoplasm of a mature dendritic cell (grey). Both HIV and Siglec-1 accumulate in a sac-like compartment (yellow) near the dendritic cell nucleus (blue).
Image credit: Maria Pino, Itziar Erkizia, and Nuria Izquierdo-Useros.
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