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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Virol. 2015 Mar 6;11:63–69. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2015.02.002

Figure 1. The HIV glycan shield.

Figure 1

HIV-1 Env glycosylation contains a population of oligomannose-type glycans that can be ascribed to the intrinsic mannose patch (IMP) and trimer-associated mannose patch (TAMP). Monomeric gp120 expressed outside of the context of the trimer only contains the IMP. The Env protein surface (grey) is derived from the crystal structure [25] and the glycans have been modelled in green (Pritchard et al., unpublished). The glycan structure is Man9GlcNAc2.