viral infection- a parasitic infestation

This is not sea urchin.

This is Human immunodeficiency virus.Viruses in general unlike bacteria are packages or capsules of genetic material.

They require living hosts — such as people, plants or animals — to multiply and survive.

When a virus enters your body, it invades some of your cells and takes over the cell machinery, redirecting it to produce the virus. The virus may eventually kill the host cells.

Viruses could either be DNA or RNA virus. Once inside the host cell it could insert its viral genome to the host's nucleus and use its nuclear apparatus to reproduce and multiply. The infected cell usually dies because the virus keeps it from performing its normal functions. When it dies, the cell releases new viruses, which go on to infect other cells.

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/animations/infection/inf_frames.htm

fusion of T lymphocyte and HIV mechanism

http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/weaver/fusion.htm

http://www.dbc.uci.edu/~faculty/wagner/hsvbinding.html

see HIV attacking the T cell in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO8MP3wMvqg&feature=related

I just wonder what happens to the regulatory processes -splicing and proof-reading in the transcriptin process..can anybody help?