Sentences with phrase «viruses hijack»

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«By identifying the most important cellular components that viruses hijack and re-wire, we can more intelligently design drugs that target the virus's weak points and where it interacts with the host.»

In particular, they have examined the ways in which viruses hijack cell proteins to help regulate their exit and spread from the host cell through the budding process.

In living organisms, real viruses hijack cells in much the same way.

«From bite site to brain: How rabies virus hijacks and speeds up transport in nerve cells.»

After infecting the respiratory tract, the virus hijacks the immune system's white blood cells, using them to spread in the body — including to the skin to cause chickenpox.

This endosomal pathway normally breaks things down to absorb and recycle their components, but Ebola virus hijacks the pathway's functions to infiltrate cells.

«Virus hijacks protein machine and then kills the host.»

An unexpected feature of HIV infection is that in the first few weeks after invasion, the virus hijacks the immune system and sends it into overdrive.

A study published today in Science shows that the Zika virus hijacks a human protein called Musashi - 1 (MSI1) to allow it to replicate in, and kill, neural stem cells.

Instead, they attract white blood cells such as macrophages, which engulf the virus whole — but the virus hijacks the blood cell's machinery and replicates.

The hepatitis C virus hijacks the body's immune system, leaving T cells unable to function.

Carette then identified the mutated genes in the surviving cells, which code for a transporter molecule and an enzyme that the influenza virus hijacks to take over cells.

Through a new study that explores one aspect of how the virus hijacks host cell machinery to replicate itself, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have gained insight into the workings of a potential drug target for hepatitis C.

Not exact matches

In fact, by one recent estimate, about 36 % of all the traffic on the web is fake — «the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites.»

Unlike any other virus or worm built before, this one didn't just simply hijack the targeted computers or steal information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak actual physical destruction on an Iranian nuclear facility.

What would it take to hijack the virus in west Africa and turn it into a bioterror agent elsewhere?

The virus then enters and hijacks muscle and nerve cells where it replicates and travels up the nerves to infect the brain and other tissues.

These genes code for proteins involved in transporting small containers called vesicles throughout the healthy cell, but these proteins are often hijacked by viruses in order to move the virus through the cell.

In order to survive, viruses must hijack a person's host cells to churn out more viral particles.

The virus that causes chickenpox — varicella zoster virus (VZV)-- possesses a protein that could enhance its ability to hijack white blood cells and spread throughout the body, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

Overall, these results suggest that glycoprotein C may interact with chemokines to attract more white blood cells to the site of VZV infection, where the virus can hijack the white blood cells to spread to other parts of the body.

Bacteria are vulnerable to deadly viruses called phages, which can hijack bacteria's genetic machinery and force them to produce viral DNA instead.

Viruses technically are not alive, but there is some stage that's sort of in between inert and going through a living stage by hijacking the machinery of cells.

Viruses, which can not reproduce on their own, hijack host cell proteins and machinery in order to replicate.

By hijacking the cricket fat body, the virus established itself more easily by knocking out part of the cricket immune response, a necessary tactic for any parasite to avoid being detected and destroyed by their host.

That's according to researchers from The University of Manchester who have discovered that the virus protein uses its flexible arms to pass on viral building blocks to the proteins of cells that it hijacks.

HCV invades cells in the body by binding to specific receptors on the cell, enabling the virus to enter it.2 Once inside, HCV hijacks functions of the cell known as transcription, translation and replication, which enables HCV to make copies of its viral genome and proteins, allowing the virus to spread to other sites of the body.2 When HCV enters the host cell, it releases viral (+) RNA that is transcribed by viral RNA replicase into viral -LRB--) RNA, which can be used as a template for viral genome replication to produce more (+) RNA or for viral protein synthesis.

The virus readily infected bacteria, hijacking their genetic machinery to duplicate itself.

The virus can not replicate without a host cell, which it hijacks for its survival.

The researchers used lysin, a protein antibody typically produced by a virus after it has infected and hijacked a host cell's machinery to replicate.

«Dengue, Zika virus family uses an unexpected approach to hijack human cell machinery.»

One of the paper's co-authors, Hugh Willison, who studies GBS at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, says it's possible that something more subtle is happening: Like other viruses, the one that causes Zika hijacks a cell's own replication machinery to make new copies of itself, which then break out of the dying cell and infect neighboring cells.

«Zika virus may cause microcephaly by hijacking human immune molecule: Fetal brain model provides first clues on how Zika virus blunts brain development; blocking mechanism reduces cell damage.»

«These viruses are hijacking many of the host cell translation steps or pathways to favor the production of new virus progeny,» says Ruggieri.

The researchers show that when the Zika virus enters these stem cells, it hijacks MSI1 for its own replication and damages the cells in at least two ways.

«There are many diseases, not only Cryptococcosis, in which pathogens — bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that can cause disease — survive by deliberately hijacking the immune system in this way.

Like many viruses, MERS works by hijacking the ubiquitin system in human cells composed of hundreds of proteins that rely on ubiquitin to keep the cells alive and well.

Antibiotics and other modern medicines do not work on viruses because these radically simple organisms infiltrate cells and hijack their processes to serve their own purposes.

The influenza virus makes itself at home in human cells and hijacks our proteins for its own ends.

Gradinaru's team turned to viruses because the infective agents are small and adept at entering cells and hijacking the DNA within.

An international study led by researchers at Monash University» Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) has shone light on the way the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) hijacks the communication systems in the host cells it infects, uncovering potential new therapeutic targets for the disease.

The rabies virus, transmitted largely through the bites of infected animals, has evolved over thousands of years to hijack nerve cells, which it uses to climb from infected muscle tissue into the brain.

Hijacking of the immune system has been demonstrated before in other infectious diseases, such as dengue virus.

According to Tang, three days after exposure to the virus, 90 percent of the cortical neural progenitor cells were infected, and had been hijacked to churn out new copies of the virus.

Although they are not themselves alive, a virus can reproduce by hijacking the machinery of a living cell.

This resulted in a staggering 50,000 virus - host protein interactions, approximately 500 of which appeared to be involved in viral infection.By removing the interacting host proteins from the cell one at a time, the researchers were able to determine what their functional contribution was in the infection process: whether the host proteins were hijacked by the virus and used to spread infection, or whether they were part of a defense mechanism against the virus.

Like other more severe pathogens (Rocky Mountain spotted fever bacteria and smallpox virus), Listeria «hijack» host cell proteins to generate actin rocket tails that push bacteria into adjacent cells, thus spreading infection.

These cells became infected and also were hijacked to make new copies of the virus.

That code gets hijacked by viruses and other invaders.