Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...
Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion. (CDC/PD) "We're really trying to come up with something that was more practical ...
The fact that the virus can infect a cow’s teat but not our nasal passages is a quirk of biology. Every virion has proteins on its surface — hemagglutinin, the H in H5N1 — that it uses to ...
Most DNA viruses, for example ... A prime example of this is Orthoreovirus, for which structural complexity of the virion (double layer capsid, replication and mRNA synthesis machinery at each ...
This highlights the role of host proteases in regulating IAV exit, relating virion production with host cell state. Influenza A virus Matrix 2 protein (M2) contains a LIR motif which is cleaved by ...
Herpesvirus-encoded microRNAs (v-miRNAs) play a crucial role in modulating host cellular processes to promote viral persistence, immune evasion, and pathogenesis. These v-miRNAs function by targeting ...