Influenza and other viruses pack their genetic material into a protein shell, which must be disassembled for the viruses to efficiently replicate. But how viruses "uncoat" their genes remains largely ...

Figure 2: Three-dimensional image reconstruction of a clathrin D6 barrel with bound auxilin(547–910) at 12 Å resolution. The remaining domain(s) at the N terminus of auxilin, absent from our structure ...

It has been more than 40 years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and scientists still don't fully understand how HIV enters and replicates in human cells, which has hindered the development ...

A new study determines glycosylation and pH-dependent conformational changes of virus receptor SCARB2 as crucial for EV71 attachment, entry and uncoating Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the major causative ...