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BMS-955176 is a maturation inhibitorâthe drug prevents HIV from producing complex âpolyproteinsâ that are cut up by protease enzymes and assembled into new virus particles. If approved, BMS-955176 would be the first HIV medication to work by preventing virus assembly, maturation, and release from infected cells.
The viral envelope. HIV has a diameter of 1/10,000 of a millimeter and is spherical in shape. The outer coat of the virus, known as the viral envelope, is composed of two layers of fatty molecules called lipids, taken from the membrane of a human cell when a newly formed virus particle buds from the cell.