Virus Factory (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Virus Factory

Caption

The top image shows uninfected, normal human cells with cell nuclei in blue and the cellular protein processing apparatus in red. In the infected cells (bottom image), the virus has produced proteins (green) that take over and reorganize the cellular processing apparatus into a virus factory.

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Farah Bughio, Felicia Goodrum

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