Cell Biology
May 6, 2008
Dirty Rotten Poxviruses
“They found that the virus's surface was studded with phosphatidylserine, a lipid that also flags dead cells as garbage.”
Eat me. Poxvirus may enter its host cell by sporting a "garbage" tag that prompts the cell to swallow it. via Free Republic
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