Kiss of Death

1,738 views · Published 22 October 2012 · 0:12 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: Cell Press · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Dendritic cells are early cell type colonized by HIV and HIV subverts the functions of dendritic cells to enable viral spread to T cells. The dendritic cell-T cell interface is an important interaction point for the spread of HIV from dendritic cells to uninfected T cells.

Electron tomography of the interdigitation of a dendritic cell and T cell. Replace with: This 3D image of a cell-cell contact zone shows how T cells reach into HIV-filled reservoirs in dendritic cells to infect themselves.

Video courtesy of Donald Bliss and Sriram Subramaniam, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute.

See more virus images in the Cell Picture Show: https://www.cell.com/pictureshow/viruses

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