Hello everyone, welcome to our immunology club.
In this channel, we will introduce you the basic biology of immunology and virus infection.
Today, let’s talk about how virus proliferates within a cell.
Last time, we introduced how the virus sneaks into the cell by making use of the cell’s sensor with a specific keyhole.
Now, our virus is in a little ballon heading to the center of the cell.
The purpose of the virus riding this balloon is to go to the cell’s factory and make its own copy.
The virus is ready to give it a shot!
During the journey of this little balloon, the environment inside is also changing little by little - it becoming acidic, which means a lot to the virus.
Let’s have a closer look at what’s going on in the balloon.
To understand it better, let's chop the virus into the half with a sharp knife.
Inside the virus, there is a design book that helps make the virus.
When the environment becomes acidic, the virus starts transforming.
The virus approaches the membrane of the balloon and fuses it to the membrane.
After wide open itself to the outer environment, the virus successfully delivered its design book to the factory.
There are mainly two departments in the factory, the production department, and printing department.
The production department takes charge of producing parts that makes up the virus's body,
while the printing department is responsible for making copies of the virus design book.
Finally, it comes to the last step - assembly of the virus.
This time, we will ride on the balloon that goes in the opposite direction from last time, which is heading to the cell membrane.
Parts that produced by the factory fuse to the ballon’s membrane and each encloses a copy of the virus design book.
This is how tons of new virus get assembled everywhere within the cell
These viruses will then get exploded and go on to their next journey.
The next destination is the huge amount of healthy cells around.
A short summary of today, viruses proliferate by making use of the cell’s factory.
Next time, the virus will meet its crazy expansion!
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