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 ...

SARS-CoV-2 has a similar structure to TGEV: an enveloped virus with an outer lipid membrane and three proteins forming the surface. In this latest investigation, the team aimed to determine whether ...

Enveloped viruses have evolved complex glycoprotein ... Here we report the crystal structure of the parainfluenza virus 5 F protein in its prefusion conformation, stabilized by the addition ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding ... This deviation in symmetry could come from the way the virus is produced. When enveloped viruses are assembling new virus ...

Measles virus belongs to a family of viruses whose members are all pleomorphic enveloped viruses ... tomography and image processing to solve the structure, a method analogous to X-ray tomography ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding ... This deviation in symmetry could come from the way the virus is produced. When enveloped viruses are assembling new virus ...

In order to gain entry to the inside of the cell, enveloped viruses use proteins (or glycoproteins ... neatly folded into a structure, which is studded with up to 23 sugar molecules.

Published in Cell Reports Medicine, the study describes the compound's remarkable ability to disrupt the entry of enveloped viruses into the host's cell and prevent infection. The team hopes to ...

Determining the structure of a virus is an important ... symmetry could come from the way the virus is produced. When enveloped viruses are assembling new virus particles, they burrow into a ...