Briggs Group
briggsgroup.bsky.social
Briggs Group
@briggsgroup.bsky.social
Briggs group at MPI Biochemistry
Department of Cell and Virus Structure
Cryo-EM, tomography, CLEM, coated vesicles, enveloped viruses.
Our work on HIV-1 matrix, led by James Stacey and @dhrebik.bsky.social, is in this week's @nature.com. Extended explanatory video from @margotriggi.bsky.social.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Mature #HIV-1 contains >2000 copies of “spacer peptide 2”, but we didn’t know why. We now see that SP2 binds the matrix protein and triggers the change into its mature arrangement. Summary video from @margotriggi.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM