美国科学家们宣布HIV病毒的基因组结构已经被完全破解(资料图)

国际在线专稿：据英国广播公司BBC报道，美国科学家们宣布HIV病毒的基因组结构已经被完全破解。这项研究的成果已经被刊登在《自然》杂志上，供人们进一步审视潜藏在HIV病毒内部的信息。

HIV病毒的所含有的基因信息比其他病毒要复杂的多。科学家们希望，破解HIV基因组结构能够为更加深入地了解HIV病毒的致病机制提供线索，同时也为发展治疗艾滋病的药物提供条件。

和流感、丙型肝炎以及小儿麻痹症病毒一样，HIV病毒是通过RNA而非DNA来传递遗传信息的。隐藏在DNA里的遗传信息以一种相对简单的方式编码，而RNA中的遗传基因的编码则要复杂得多。而且RNA折叠的方式和结构也非常复杂，这之前给科学家们全面解读HIV的遗传信息带来了很大的阻碍。

这支来自美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的研究团队称，他们打算利用这些已被解码的遗传信息来对该病毒做细微的改变。

微生物及免疫学教授罗恩·史万斯多姆称：“我们可以通过引起基因突变的方式来干扰HIV病毒，如果它不能正常增殖，我们则可以发现是那些因素可以造成该病毒的基因突变。”

他还说道：“我们已经开始着手研究HIV病毒的基因到底耍了什么花招让它逃过了人类寄主的识别系统。” (本文来源：国际在线 )

U.S. scientists crack completely virus genome structure of HIV
2009-08-06 10:21:47 Source: International Online (Beijing)
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC reports, the U.S. scientists announced that HIV virus genome structure has been completely broken for the people to further examine the potential in the HIV virus inside information, but also for the development of drugs to treat AIDS and provide good conditions.


U.S. scientists announced that HIV virus genome structure has been completely broken (data)
International online SEOUL: According to the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC reports, the U.S. scientists announced that HIV virus genome structure has been completely broken. The results of this study has been published in "Nature" magazine, for people to look at the potential for further HIV virus in the internal information.

HIV virus genetic information contained in the virus than others to be more complex. Scientists hope to crack the genome structure of HIV is able to provide more in-depth understanding of the pathogenic mechanism of HIV virus to provide clues, but also for the development of drugs to treat AIDS and provide good conditions.

And influenza, hepatitis C and polio virus, like, HIV virus is RNA rather than DNA to transfer genetic information. Hidden in the DNA's genetic information in a relatively simple way of coding, and RNA encoding genes in the more complex. And RNA folding and structure of the way is also very complicated, to the scientists before the full interpretation of HIV genetic information is a big hindrance.

This from the United States University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus of the research team said that they intend to make use of these has been decoding the genetic information to make minor changes in the virus.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology dome Ron Vance history: "We can be caused by gene mutation approaches to interfere with HIV virus, if it can not be normal proliferation, we can see that those factors can cause the gene mutations of the virus. "

He also said: "We have begun to examine the HIV virus genes play in the end what tricks it escaped recognition system of human hosts." (This article Source: International Online)