Genome replication and assembly of viruses often takes place in specific intracellular
compartments where viral components concentrate, thereby increasing the efficiency of the …

Rubella virus (RV) is the causative agent of the disease known more popularly as German
measles. Rubella is predominantly a childhood disease and is endemic throughout the …

The identification and characterization of host cell membranes essential for positive-strand
RNA virus replication should provide insight into the mechanisms of viral replication and …

Background White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral disease that affects most of the
commercially important shrimps and causes serious economic losses to the shrimp farming …

Rubella or German measles is an infection caused by rubella virus (RV). Infection of children
and adults is usually characterized by a mild exanthematous febrile illness. However, RV is …

Rubella virus (RUBV), a rubivirus, is an airborne human pathogen that generally causes
mild measles-like symptoms in children or adults. However, RUBV infection of pregnant …

Togavirus nucleocapsids have a characteristic icosahedral structure and are composed of
multiple copies of a capsid protein complexed with genomic RNA. The assembly of rubella …

ABSTRACT The alphavirus Semliki Forest virus (SFV) and its derived vectors induce
apoptosis in mammalian cells. Here, we show that apoptosis is associated with the loss of …

The distribution and morphology of mitochondria are dramatically affected during infection
with rubella virus (RV). Expression of the capsid, in the absence of other viral proteins, was …

During virus assembly, the capsid proteins of RNA viruses bind to genomic RNA to form
nucleocapsids. However, it is now evident that capsid proteins have additional functions that …