Rotovirus Entry (IMAGE)

Harvard Medical School

Rotovirus Entry

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For the first time, researchers have seen how a rotavirus — less than 100 nanometers across — punches a hole in the membrane enclosing it so that it can deliver its core particle into the host cell.

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Harrison Lab/Harvard Cryo-EM Center for Structural Biology

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