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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Trends Neurol. 2014;8:71–85.

Figure 5. Synopsis of the proposed mechanisms of HIV-mediated neuronal injury.

Figure 5

HIV sheds gp120, which is endocytosed and accumulates inside neurons. The α helix of gp120 binds to the CTT of TUBB3 (enlargement) leading to destabilization of MTs, which, in turn, become impaired in their ability to transport, both retrogradely and anterogradely, mitochondria and other organelles.