Professor Chris Rudd from the Department of Pathology, who led the research, said: “One exciting aspect about this new target for HIV intervention is that we should be able to fight HIV without compromising the immune system’s ability to battle infections.”
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Image: HIV-infected H9 T-cell
Credit: NIAID
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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New target to fight HIV infection identified
2 October 2013
A mutant of an immune cell protein called ADAP (adhesion and degranulation-promoting adaptor protein) is able to block infection by HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus 1), new University of Cambridge research reveals. The researchers, who were funded by the Wellcome Trust, believe that their discovery will lead to new ways of combatting HIV.