From hot springs to HIV, same protein complexes are hijacked to promote viruses

Biologists from Indiana University and Montana State University have discovered a striking connection between viruses such as HIV and Ebola and viruses that infect organisms called archaea that grow in volcanic hot springs. Despite the huge difference in environments and a two billion year evolutionary time span between archaea and humans, the viruses hijack the same set of proteins to break out of infected cells.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/iu-...