The cytoplasmic tail appears to play a key role
in virus assembly to help incorporate the envelope spike structures into the surface of viral particles.
However, there is evidence from recent studies that one antimicrobial effect in bacteria is related to monolaurin's interference with signal transduction (Projan et al 1994), and another antimicrobial effect in viruses is due to lauric acid's interference
with virus assembly and viral maturation (Hornung et al 1994).
VA W.B. Wood, «
Virus Assembly and its Genetic Control.»
The new study revealed the Ebola VP40 protein assumes different structures to perform multiple roles in the virus's life cycle — membrane trafficking,
virus assembly and control of replication.
A conserved proline between domains II and III of hepatitis C virus NS5A influences both RNA replication and
virus assembly.