Sentences with phrase «host cellular machinery»
Influenza viruses can hijack host cellular machinery to help mutated viral proteins fold and function.
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Like all retroviruses, HIV has very few genes of its own and must take over the host's cellular machinery in order to propagate and spread throughout the body.
«We observed that HIV methodically and precisely manipulates the host's genes and cellular machinery.
They have known for many years that HIV, like other retroviruses, needs help from its host's cellular machinery — for example, to transcribe its genetic material.
It hijacks the cellular machinery of its host to copy its genetic material and spread new viral particles.
«When we study the interactions between the host cell and the virus, we get information about both of them and about how cellular machinery is working under viral infection,» says Alessia Ruggieri, a group leader and virologist at University of Heidelberg in Germany and senior researcher on the study.
As little more than free - ranging bundles of genetic material, viruses desperately need to hijack their hosts» cellular machinery and resources to replicate, over and over again.