#viral-replication

#viral-replication

SARS-CoV-2, like any virus, needs to enter the cell, start replicating its genome, and then start making all of the building blocks needed to make new progeny viruses, Hultquist said. For a lot of these processes, the virus uses our own cellular architecture, but we had an incomplete understanding of exactly which human proteins the virus was using for which stages of its replication cycle.

"What fascinates us is that all viruses are dependent on gaining access to host ribosomes, even poxviruses, which are highly unusual DNA viruses that are so self-sufficient in other processes."