A virion (plural, viria or virions) is an inert virus particle capable of invading a cell. Upon entering the cell, the virion disassembles and the genetic...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

particles are resistant to heat and light inactivation, whereas the naked BV virion is more sensitive to environment.[citation needed] When infecting a caterpillar...

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

realm of viruses that includes archaeal viruses that have a filamentous virion (i.e. body) and a linear, double-stranded DNA genome. The genome exists...

messenger/viral RNA, they are not all expressed at the same levels. An MS2 virion (viral particle) is about 27 nm in diameter, as determined by electron microscopy...

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

major component of the virion encasing the nucleic acid of the respective MGE and therefore the gene encoding the major virion protein itself or MGEs...

infection many mimivirus virions are clearly visible within the cell. The cell cytoplasm continues to fill with newly synthesised virions, and about 24 hours...

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...

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...

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

negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome. They have an enveloped, spherical virion. Though generally found in arthropods or rodents, certain viruses in this...

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...

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

species: European brown hare syndrome virus Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus Virions consist of a capsid. The capsid is not enveloped, round with T=3 icosahedral...

distinctive shape reflects their method of replication: the coat of the virion comprises five types of viral protein, which are located in the inner membrane...

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

subfamily, and 78 species. Virions are enveloped and can be spherical or pleomorphic and capable of producing filamentous virions. The diameter is around...

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...