Kvaratskhelia Lab Discovers Human Protein that Regulates the HIV-1 Life Cycle

Virologist and professor of medicine Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, PhD, and colleagues in the Division of Infectious Diseases have published in Nature Microbiology their discovery that a human cellular protein – Sec24c – critically regulates HIV-1. Sec24c, binds to the outer shell (capsid core) of an incoming virus and is necessary for proper infectivity.