virus particle

collocation in English

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virus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvaɪə.rəs/us
/ˈvaɪ.rəs/
an extremely small piece of organic material that causes disease in humans, animals, ...
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particle
noun
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/ˈpɑː.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬ə.kəl/
a word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or ...
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(Definition ofvirusandparticlefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One copy of the maturation protein is required in everyvirusparticle.
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In addition, three newvirusparticlemorphologies that had not been previously observed from thermal environments were found.
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Thevirusparticle, (virion) consists of an outer lipid envelope and an icosahedral nucleocapsid core composed of protein.
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Thevirusparticlehas surface spikes proteins that are club-shaped and are evenly dispersed over the surface.
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Studies have shown that thevirusparticleis brick shaped and measures 280-330 nm by 200-250 nm in size.
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Thevirusparticle(virion) consists of an outer lipid envelope and an icosahedral nucleocapsid core composed of protein.
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The late genes are expressed after the genome has been replicated and encode the structural proteins to make thevirusparticle.
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For scale, a singlevirusparticleis about 100 nanometers in width.
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Infection occurs when thevirusparticleis taken into a cell of the host.
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Thevirusparticleis 80120 nanometers in diameter and usually roughly spherical, although filamentous forms can occur.
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These genes encode structural proteins that form thevirusparticle, or non-structural proteins, that are only found in cells infected by the virus.
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As each unit genome is replicated, it is cut within the terminal repeat region, and then packaged into avirusparticle(virion).
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Binding to v integrin results in endocytosis of thevirusparticlevia clathrin-coated pits.
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Whether the recurrent episode is symptomatic or asymptomatic may depend, at least in part, on the number of virus particles present at the skin surface.
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Once airborne, virus particles are subject to environmental factors that influence their rate of biological and physical decay.
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It also produced further evidence to suggest that aerosolization of virus particles can lead to direct infection.
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Hirst identified an enzymic activity associated with thevirusparticle, later characterised as the neuraminidase, the first demonstration that viruses could contain enzymes.
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Appearance of virus particles was revealed in numerous vacuoles of disintegrated cytoplasm, around nuclei and inside them.
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These desquamated keratinocytes contain virus particles that escape the cell and infect the new host.
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