Intracellular Trafficking

Question 1

Viruses which have a lipid envelope - where does viral assembly occur?

Answer 1

Primarily occurs at the membrane of the host cell, which uses the membrane to form an lipid envelope

Question 2

DNA viruses - where does assembly take place?

Answer 2

structural proteins are imported to nucleus, following synthesis in cytoplasm

DNA genome and structural proteins uses to assemble virions in nucleus