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Snapshots capture self-assembly of dangerous virus

Ultra-high-resolution images show particles of the Chikungunya virus forming at the surface of a host cell.
Models of the Chikungunya virus budding from a cell membrane at three different stages

A particle of Chikungunya virus buds from a cell (artist’s illustration; spike proteins are shown in yellow; the lipid envelope in teal). Credit: D. Chmielewski et al./Nature Microbiol.

Researchers have used high-resolution imaging to visualize how particles of the Chikungunya virus form at the membrane of an infected cell1.

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Nature 607, 214 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01847-0

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  1. Chmielewski, D., Schmid, M. F., Simmons, G., Jin, J. & Chiu, W. Nature Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01164-2 (2022).

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