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Membrane fusion

A new role for lipid domains?

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Boundaries between ordered and disordered membrane domains may be the site of HIV fusion protein insertion into its target membrane.

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Figure 1: How HIV fusion peptide interacts with domain boundaries.

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London, E. A new role for lipid domains?. Nat Chem Biol 11, 383–384 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1812

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