A protein dubbed SAMHD1 has been confirmed capable of starving cells that tend to develop into the life-threatening infection known as HIV. As a result, the protein loses its ability of transpiring anything adverse for the host and it becomes stranded at doing anything.

In this regard, a recently concluded research, which was carried out by medical experts from the NYU Langone Medical Center, has claimed that the process undergone by the proteins tends to make the cell extensively resistant against HIV infection. The authors further shed light on the fact that their discovery may well result in paving an all new and revolutionary manner of therapeutic research at fending off or completely molesting the progression of HIV into the life-threatening AIDS.

While expressing his opinion regarding the findings of the study, along with mentioning what all pros and cons can be expected due to them in the time to follow, Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD., the co-author of the study, said: "A lot of research on viruses, especially HIV, is aimed at trying to understand what the body's mechanisms of resistance are and then to understand how the virus has gotten around these mechanisms"

During the course of the study, whose findings have been made available in the recent edition of the journal Nature Immunology, the researchers successfully ended up discovering the verity that of the manner in which a few parts of the human immune system generally tend to rupture their own untreated substances or tissue, thereby resulting in fending off the possibilities of the person falling prey to the potentially terminal HIV.

Landau, along with other experts from the university, discovered that dendritic cells having a protein termed as SAMHD1 are in fact highly resistant against infection that can result in HIV.

Though the research is highly promising, the experts involved in study believe that further analysis will certainly make the concept lot easier.