Figure 5: Effect of ... De Jong, W. & Ahlquist, P. A hybrid plant RNA virus made by transferring the noncapsid movement protein from a rod-shaped to an icosahedral virus is competent for systemic ...

HSV-1 co-opts two genes — RNA polymerase II (RNAP 2) and DNA topoisomerase (TOP1) — that compact the host’s chromatin into super-dense bundles. Chromatin is the DNA-protein complex that, when ...

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Figure 2: The decreasing ... Finally, although HCV is an RNA virus that does not produce DNA replication intermediates that can integrate into the host genome, it still manages to persist in most ...

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