Virology Lectures 2025 #5: Attachment and Entry

As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses must enter cells to reproduce, but they are too large to pass through the plasma membrane. To enter cells, viruses bind receptors on the plasma membrane and release their genome either at the cell surface or within the cell. In this lecture we discuss how virus particles attach to cell receptors, the triggers for genome release from icosahedral and enveloped viruses, and how membrane fusion is regulated.
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