infecting a cell, viruses exist in the form of independent viral particles, or virions, consisting of (i) genetic material, i.e., long molecules of DNA or RNA...

Virion is another name for a virus particle. Virion may also refer to: Charles Virion (1865-1946), a noted French sculptor and ceramicist Pierre Virion...

a mature HIV virion. Only mature virions are then able to infect another cell. The classical process of infection of a cell by a virion can be called...

Poxviridae viral particles (virions) are generally enveloped (external enveloped virion), though the intracellular mature virion form of the virus, which...

Charles Louis Eugène Virion (Ajaccio, 1 December 1865 - Montigny-sur-Loing, 30 December 1946) was a noted French sculptor, medallist, and ceramicist, principally...

Virion is a screen-based digital art exhibition that links to public sites across Brisbane, focused in the Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network. The Virion...

non-enveloped particles (mature virions), and enveloped particles (extracellular virions). The structure of the virions is consistent with that of others...

Although virions of different retroviruses do not have the same morphology or biology, all the virion components are very similar. The main virion components...

Pierre Virion (1899–1988) was a French journalist and promoter of the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory. Taguieff, Pierre-André (2013). Court traité de complotologie :...

sense copy using the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that's included in the virion. Then this copy is used to create a new negative copy, and so on, to create...

around the virion) of HIV virions Chemical or organic attachments to the virion Here, "damage" means inhibiting or stopping the ability of virion to process...

second largest component of biomass after prokaryotes, where up to 9x108 virions per millilitre have been found in microbial mats at the surface, and up...

the envelope. This whole particle is known as a virion. The structural components of a typical HSV virion are the Lipid bilayer envelope, Tegument, DNA...

of the virion: the DNA-filled head, the tail, and the side tail fibers. The virions self-assemble from these components, with the first virion appearing...

(also called the virion) is 80–120 nanometers in diameter such that the smallest virions adopt an elliptical shape; larger virions have a filamentous...

to eject the phage genome into the cell at the initiation of infection, virion proteins must first make a channel from the tip of the tail into the cell...

structures, called spikes or peplomers, that project from the surface of the virion. The distinctive appearance of these spikes when visualized using negative...

eukaryotes was discovered in HSV (of the thymidine kinase gene) and the virion protein VP16 is one of the most-studied transcriptional activators. Animal...

proteins, and its name has been changed to Rev (regulator of expression of virion proteins), which more generally describes its function. Rev is a 13-kDa...

form into hairpin loops that are important during replication. Parvovirus virions are small compared to most viruses, at 23–28 nanometers in diameter, and...

body is invaded by pathogenic viruses, and infectious virus particles (virions) attach to and enter susceptible cells. Examples are the common cold, gastroenteritis...

Human rhinovirus genome, virion structure, and species...

particles. VP2 forms the core layer of the virion and binds the RNA genome. VP3 is part of the inner core of the virion and is an enzyme called guanylyl transferase...

infectious by itself as it needs to be transcribed into positive-sense RNA; each virion can be transcribed to several positive-sense RNAs. Ambisense RNA viruses...

virus particle (virion) consists of an outer lipid envelope and an icosahedral nucleocapsid core composed of core protein. These virions are 30–42 nm in...

proteins, CP-17 and CP-16. The virion is non-enveloped, spherical, with a capsid of about 15 nm with icosahedral symmetry. The virion is constructed from two...

RSV structure and genome organization. (a) ~150 nm RSV virion particle and (b) single-stranded negative-sense RNA genome consisting of 10 genes...

distinct retrovirus in patients with AIDS which was later named HIV." Each virion comprises a viral envelope and associated matrix enclosing a capsid, which...

some function as mRNA, and some are destined to be the genomes of progeny virions. In the assembly of new virus particles (i.e. the packaging of progeny...

with icosahedral symmetry. Electron microscope studies reveal a 45–50 nm virion covered with a relatively smooth protein shell; this structure is similar...