A revolutionary research has revealed out a protein that can help safeguard the lives of HIV patients. According to scientists, this protein will starve HIV of raw materials that it needs to reproduce. And this way it will hinder the cause of AIDS to life.

According to an international team that is led by the NYU Langone Medical Center, they have identified a procedure that tries and help out the immune system in halting the spread of HIV to rest of body. If this mechanism succeeds then it would overlay the way for therapeutic research that aims in slowing down the virus' succession to AIDS.

As said by Nathaniel R Landau, who is a member of this International team, in the 'Nature Immunology' journal: "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".

The protein that is involved in this research is known as SAMHD1. According to recent studies, there are immune cells in a body that are also known as dendritic cells, and these cells consist of this SAMHD1 protein. These cells are resistant to infection by HIV.

As soon as a virus, like HIV starts infecting a cell, it immediately seizes the cell's molecular material to reproduce. This molecular material is in the form of deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs), and it is basically the building blocks for DNA also. It is on the replication of virus that the DNA molecule starts instructing the cells to produce more viruses. According to scientists, this protein SAMHD1 will damage the set of dNTPs and will leave the virus null of building blocks for replicating procedure. This way it will protect the cell from viruses and will block the spread of AIDS.