Hep A Cell Infection (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

Hep A Cell Infection

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Hepatitus A virus particles (pink) trapped in lysosomes (yellow intracellular organelles), unable to initiate replication in the cytoplasm of cells due to UCGC enzyme being knocked out.

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Maryna Kapustina, PhD, UNC School of Medicine

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