Explaining the hiv natural life cycle to a personality next to no medical surroundings?


Answers:    HIV life cycle would explain the process of how one HIV virus reproduces other viruses.
es of HIV Disease has to do near how HIV affects the entire body (disease)

HIV lifecycle:

HIV can hijack any cell with a special CD4+ receptor on the surface of the cell (CD4+ cell are the main target).

HIV attaches onto the cell and once attached, HIV injects its innards inside the human cell [binding and fusion], including several key enzymes and HIV's genetic material, RNA. It is the RNA to be exact the 'blueprint' for how to build HIV and the enzymes help at key stages in the lifecycle.
the HIV RNA to be capable of do its job it has to incorporate itself inside of our DNA inside the nucleus.

But first, it must change the HIV RNA into DNA (reverse transcription) using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to be exact in each virus.

At this stage the time cycle is suspended. It isn't until the immune system reacts to any other invader that it can "turn on" the latently HIV infected CD4 cell that it begins to create more virus.

Once turned on, instead of going to where it wants to proteins are created which conform to the HIV 'blueprint'. (translation) The protease enzyme (which also came with HIV) cuts the newly formed proteins into the lengths/shapes/parts needed (cleavage).
parts come together, fully grown, and as all the new viruses disappear the cell, they take pieces of the cell membrane for there own membranes thus killing the cell. (budding,maturation)

Picture of the steps described can be found here:
http://www.physweekly.com/picts/uploads/… Source(s): HIV/STI Prevention and Outreach Educator x 7 years
HIV time cycle starting at the time of infection:
HIV enters the body and attacks a persons T-cells. Once it attaches itself to the persons t-cell, it take over the cell and begins to produce more HIV virus that can go on to infect other t-cells. As the virus progresses through the body it depletes the person of their T-cells and surrounded by turn their resistance to disease.


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