| AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| AP-MS | affinity purification followed by mass spectrometry |
| ART | anti-retroviral therapy |
| BICD2 | Bicaudal D2 |
| CA | monomeric capsid protein |
| CFIm | cleavage factor I mammalian |
| CHD | CypA homologous domain |
| CPSF6 | Cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor subunit 6 |
| CRISPR/Cas9 | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9 |
| CypA | cyclophilin A |
| cyro-ET | cyro-electron tomography |
| DmrB | drug-inducible dimerization domain B |
| dNTPs | deoxynucleotide triphosphates |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FEZ1 | Fasciculation and Elongation Protein Zeta 1 |
| HIV-1 | The Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 |
| IFNs | interferons |
| IN | integrase |
| IP6 | inositol hexaphosphate |
| LC-MS/MS | liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry |
| MHR | major homology region |
| MT | microtubule |
| MX2 | myxovirus resistance 2 |
| NPC | nuclear pore complex |
| Nup | nucleoporin |
| PDL | proximity-dependent labeling |
| PIC | pre-integration complex |
| PPIase | peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase |
| PPIs | protein–protein interactions |
| RING | Really Interesting New Gene |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| RT | reverse transcriptase |
| SILAC | Stable Isotope Labeling with Amino acids in Cell culture |
| siRNA | small-interfering RNA |
| SPRY domain | SPla and the RYanodine Receptor |
| TAP | tandem affinity purification |
| TRIM5α | tripartite motif-containing protein 5 alpha |
| TRN-1 | Transportin-1 |
| Y2H | yeast two-hybrid |