Vaccinia Virus Can Escape Protein Cage that Traps Them in the Cell (VIDEO)

Rockefeller University Press

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Video shows a septin cage (green) assembling around a vaccinia virus particle (blue) in a human HeLa cell. The cage is then displaced by the assembly of an actin tail (red).

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Pfanzelter et al., 2018

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