NOUN
- (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)
How To Use virion In A Sentence
- Similarly, the different elements composing the virions, namely the capsid proteins and the ssDNA are also produced from the dsDNA and therefore virions production is expected to be proportional to the production of PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Progressive swelling resulted in cytolysis and release of virions.
- Because infectious baculovirus virions are not produced in mammalian culture, working with baculoviruses often requires less extensive biosafety precautions. The Scientist
- The close association of actin bundles with the intracellular virions suggests that nucleation and filamentation of actin may be virus induced.
- Lineages that had alternated between cell types produced significantly more virions than did the ancestral stock on PDE cells.
- The humoral arm produces virus-neutralizing antibodies that, when fully effective, completely prevent virions from infecting new host cells.
- The virions on the cell surfaces were imaged at high resolution and considerable detail of the arrangement of protein assemblies on their surfaces was evident.
- The virus itself is a spherical enveloped virion, between 80 and 160 nm diameter, and has single stranded RNA of about 30 kilobases, the largest genome of all ssRNA viruses.
- At the center of the virion is a protein capsid containing two identical, single strands of genomic RNA, plus essential reverse transcriptase enzymes, as well as some accessory molecules.
- Recombination requires the simultaneous infection of a cell with two different proviruses, allowing the encapsulation of one RNA transcript from each provirus into a heterozygous virion.