FIG 7.

Average measured stiffness values of isolated HIV-1 cores as a function of the progress of reverse transcription with delayed addition of efavirenz. Reverse transcription was initiated by adding dNTPs and MgCl₂ to the cores. At 2.5 h into the reaction, RT inhibitor (100 nM efavirenz) was added to the reverse transcription buffer. WT data without RT inhibitor (taken from Fig. 1) is presented as a gray line for comparison. The error bars represent the standard errors of the mean, and the number of cores analyzed is indicated beside each data point.