The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

Article Open access Published: 27 March 2017 Structure and function of the Zika virus full-length NS5 protein Baoyu Zhao, Guanghui Yi, Fenglei Du, Yin-Chih Chuang, Robert C. Vaughan, Banumathi ...

How the antibody cocktail works At 3.1 angstroms, the 3D structure is the highest-resolution image of the Ebola virus surface protein ever assembled using asymmetric reconstruction.

The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists, about half of a micrometre (0.0005 millimeter) in diameter. It is more than 10 times larger than the virus that causes the common cold and ...

The structure reveals that the capsid has an interior helical core around which the RNA is wound (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa5137).

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The structure reveals how the virus evades its host's immune system, and how it hijacks infected cells' vital machinery in a process scientists call "cap-stealing." Details of the structure could ...

Once the researchers worked out the structure of the enzyme, they took a closer look at how different parts of the enzyme affect the different functions that it performs. Understanding the roles ...

PHOTO CAPTION 1: Though further study is needed to analyze precisely how the DNA packaging motor functions, the scientists speculate it works something like this: As the virus enters a cell, it ...

An important breakthrough in understanding the Zika virus structure and its behaviour has been highlighted in a study by Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) scientists.

However, these processes often damage the virus, making it difficult to determine its structure at a high resolution, she explained. Instead, the team used a surrogate to study POWV.