Local Weather. Brewing tropical cyclone in Bay of Bengal won't bring heat relief to India. April 13, 2017, 9:40:41 AM EDT. A budding tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is expected to target Myanmar, preventing India from welcoming any relief from the dangerous heat wave. Tropical depression to soak central Philippines Easter weekend. April 14, 2017, 7:00:42 AM EDT.
HIV is a retrovirus. HIV is an enveloped retrovirus. Each virus particle contains two copies of an RNA genome. The virus also has a number of enzymes: reverse transcriptase, integrase and viral protease. These molecules play an important role in making new copies of HIV and can be the targets of antiretroviral drugs.
How HIV Infects a Cell. HIV is a retrovirus, which means it carries single-stranded RNA is its genetic material rather than the double-stranded DNA human cells carry. Retroviruses also have the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which allow it to copy RNA into DNA and use that DNA copy to infect human, or host, cells.When HIV infects a cell, it first attaches to and fuses with the host cell.Then the viral RNA is converted into DNA and the virus uses the host cellâs machinery to replicate itself during a process called reverse transcription. The new copies of HIV then leave the host cell and move on to infect other cells.IV is a retrovirus, which means it carries single-stranded RNA is its genetic material rather than the double-stranded DNA human cells carry.