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Virus Watch: Building Zika virus

11 May 2016 by Vincent Racaniello

The results of recent structural studies have given us the ability to display the structure of Zika virus and of the viral E protein bound to antibody. In this video from Virus Watch I explain how the Zika virus particle is built, and how it interacts with an antibody that blocks infection, in beautiful three dimensional imagery.

Filed Under: Virus Watch Tagged With: 3D structure, antibody, cryo-electron microscopy, viral, virology, virus, virus structure, viruses, X-ray crystallography, zika virus

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by Vincent Racaniello

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