Polio virus figure (IMAGE)

Umea University

Polio virus figure

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The left image shows how newly formed poliovirus particles (pink) are loaded with the virus genome and turn into infectious viruses (red). On the right: if the cell’s protein VPS34 is inhibited, the virus assembly stops halfway. Half-made virus particles are shown in red. One virus particle is 30 nanometres (one nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre).

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Selma Dahmane, Umeå University, Sweden

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