How enveloped viruses enter cells

Made a booboo yesterday.

There are two ways by which enveloped virus enter cells.

For the flu influenza virus, it does so via endocytosis. Indeed, the nucleocapsid is enclosed in two layers of membranes but the membranes will then fuse to release the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm where the capsid will be digested away (uncoated) and reveal the nuclei acid.

For HIV virus, there is direct fusion of viral membrane with the cell membrane such that the nucleocapsid enter the cell directly and will be digested ......blah.

0 comments:

Post a Comment