NOUN
- (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins
How To Use virino In A Sentence
- Some scientists claim that because there are many types of TSE agent, the virino is a more likely explanation.
- Taxonomically this places virinos between conventional viruses and viroids (a class of plant pathogens which neither need nor code for proteins to be infectious).
- In support of the virino hypothesis is the existence of different strains of prions that cause differing patterns of disease and breed true; the existence of strains in pathogens is usually the result of changes in the nucleic acid sequence of the infectious agent.
- Ili ne volis gxeni la nigre vestitan virinon, kiu sencxese, kvazaux senspirite, la funebrajn cxambrojn trapasxis; de frua mateno gxis malfrua vespero, en pensojn profundigxinta, sxi travagis la logxejon, senripoze kiel la pendolo de l'horlogxo, kvazaux sxi eterne iun aux ion sercxus. The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
- Virino, kiu kuracas, estas kuracistino; edzino de kuracisto estas kuracistedzino. The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
- In the virino model, the host protein protects the scrapie agent nucleic acid from degradation and prevents the host raising an immune response, since the protein/nucleic acid complex is seen as ‘self’.
- A competing theory points to virinos (mini viruses), that are using particularly tough protein ‘shells’ to contain their small amount of nucleic acid.
