SARS-CoV-2 Hijacking Its Host Cell's Compartments (IMAGE)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

SARS-CoV-2 Hijacking Its Host Cell's Compartments

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A portion of an infected cell is observed by transmission electron microscopy, in which SARS-CoV-2-specific structures (in red, from the mirrored image on the right) can be detected as early as six hours after infection. The virus's genome is replicated in high copy number in two membrane layers forming a big balloon (large structures in red), which forms a very shielded compartment. New virions (small structures in red) are being formed by budding at the interface of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus.

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Yannick Schwab/EMBL

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