Human and monkey immunodeficiency viruses are studded with ‘spikes’ that enable them to infect cells. Structural studies reveal that these spikes are tripod-like assemblies that cluster on the virus surface.
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Burton, D. Images from the surface of HIV. Nature 441, 817–818 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441817a
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