Abstract

CERVANTES-ACOSTA, Guillermo. Host proteins incorporated by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1). Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2008, vol.24, n.1, pp.120-139. ISSN 0120-5552.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), as most of enveloped virus, acquires its envelope during the process of abandoning the infected cell. During this process, the virus acquires, along with segments of the membrane of the host cell, proteins derived from the cellular membrane as an integral part of the mature envelope. These components of the viral envelope derived from the host cell can exert some effects on the virus life cycle; on the virus-cell interaction, especially on the response of the host to its own proteins incorporated by the virus; and, finally, on the pathogenesis of the illness induced by the virus. The role of these proteins is getting more attention every day, specifically due to the importance they may have in the infectious viral process and in the development of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The goal of the present article is to revise the host proteins incorporated by the HIV, placing particular emphasis on the potential role of these proteins in the pathogenesis of AIDS.

Keywords : HIV; host proteins; AIDS; viral envelope.

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