Viral replication Flashcards
What is the role of the viral envelope and capsid outside the cell?
Protect the virus from extreme conditions
What is the role of the viral envelope and cpasid inside the cell?
Recognises target cell
Protects virus from the innate immune system
What does virus do when it encounters a host cell?
Virus recognises cell and binds to it
Virion disassembly
Genome delivered into cell - directly of taken in and delivered downstream
Genome replication
Gene expression to produce viral proteins
Virion assembly - viral particles are constructed and released
Adjacent cells become infected
What type of replication is viral replication?
Cyclic
How are viruses transmitted?
Aerosols - mucus droplets
Blood - vectors
What are the two challenges to virus entry?
Recognising cell
Crossing the membrane
How do viruses recognise cells?
By identifing cell membrane receptors
If no appropriate receptor on cell - virus won’t infect it
What do cell surface proteins define?
Define the tropism of a cell
If binding of virus onto receptor does not cause viral replication - virus won’t bind to it
What happens when viruses binds to cell surface proteins?
Cell surface proteins activate intrinsic mechanisms in the cell
Regulate replication mechanisms with in the cell
Virus exploits the properties of these proteins
What are the two ways in which viruses enter a host cell?
Virus fuses or penetrates cell membrane
Virus is internalised by endocytosis
What determines the pathway of entry of a virus?
Whether the virus is enveloped or not
Entry of a non-enveloped virus
Structure of virion changes once bound to CSM
Proteins that make up the capsid move relative to each other
Hydrophobic sequence of peptides are exposed
Penetrates the membrane-
produces a pore
Genome is injected
What mechanism of virus entry do non-enveloped viruses use?
Form pores in the CSM
What is a non-enveloped virus that enters the host cell via formation of pores in CSM?
Polio
Entry of an enveloped virus
Viral envelope = lipid
Viral envelope fuses and become continuous part of the cell membrane
Contents of the virion are internalised into endosome
Endosome moves into the cell
Down the veiscular transport pathway
Luminal pH decreases
Release of capsid into the host cell
What protein on viruses bind to CSM of host cells?
Haemagglutinin
What do Haemagglutinin proteins on viral particles bind to on host cells?
Sialic acid
What is an endosome?
Membrane bound compartments