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.

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