The HIV-1 capsid serves as a nanoscale reaction vessel for reverse transcription

• Jordan Jennings,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Harrison Bracey,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jun Hong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Danny T. Nguyen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Rishav Dasgupta,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Alondra Vázquez Rivera,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Nicolas Sluis-Cremer,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Jiong Shi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Christopher Aiken

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chris.aiken@vumc.org

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2476-4078

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