Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...

The HIV-1 capsid (pink) cracks the rings of the nuclear pore complex (orange, green and blue rings) as it traverses the channel. Credit: Philipp Kreysing Using state-of-the-art cellular tomography ...