In a new study the Harvard University suggests that there are certain proteins in the body which can help some HIV positive patients to not end up with AIDS. confirmed that every HIV infected person has AIDS. A small change in the pattern of protein can help the immune system to identify and annihilate contaminated cells.
Every one in three hundred HIV positive could be saved from AIDS by the life saving proteins which counterbalance the effects of the virus and not allowed it to spread all through the body. For the current GWAS (genome wide association study), researchers collected DNA samples of more than nine hundred such HIV controller and nearly three thousand people with average HIV infections.
The team of researchers compared the both genetically. They found SNP—single nucleotide polymorphism alterations among the samples and more than three hundred HIV controlling sites were identified. Out of three billion nucleotides, they lessened it down to a handful of amino acids which describe the disparity, each coded for just three nucleotides, explained Bruce Walker from the Harvard University in Charlestown.
All the sites recognized are in a region of the genome that codes for proteins occupied in immune reaction are known as HLA proteins. They used deterioration investigation to narrow their search down to the four sites most strongly associated with HIV invulnerability, added Walker.
They emphasized amino acids in the protein HLA-B that differed among HIV controllers and those with normal HIV infections. They associated these particular amino acids with controlling HIV transforming into AIDS. The UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has disclosed a video game to spread AIDS awareness.