The Role of Euchromatin in HIV Treatment

HIV integrates its genome into human cells it's a retrovirus so what it does is it has a an RNA genome which then uses reverse transcriptase to make single strand DNA. Most of the time as you can imagine this viral DNA is integrated into euchromatin because if the virus can't really produce proteins or produce yeah produces proteins it's not going to do anything It's just going to sit there however every once in a while HIV actually integrates into heterochromatin or closed chromatin and this is part of the reason why HIV is so hard to cure and why patients that have HIV must stay on anti-retroviral therapy for their entire life.