Cytomegalovirus hijacks human enzyme for replication
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 18:10
in Biology & Nature
This is an abstract representation of virus inducing enzyme to produce lipid envelope. More than 60 percent of the world's population is infected with a type of herpes virus called human cytomegalovirus. The virus replicates by commandeering the host cell's metabolism but the details of this maneuver are unclear.