Alphaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that cause disease in humans ranging from acute febrile illness with rash and arthritis to lethal encephalitis. Like many other mosquito-borne viruses, they ...

Shirogane and colleagues reported their findings in Science Advances, in a paper titled “ Collective fusion activity determines neurotropism of an en bloc transmitted enveloped virus ...

The majority of large or global outbreaks of disease are caused by enveloped RNA viruses. In the current study, the researchers aimed to identify host cell factors that promoted RNA virus replication.

(+) RNA viruses are skilled masters of manipulating cellular proteins to complete essential steps of virus infection: (1) translation and replication of viral (+)RNA; (2) virus movement to adjacent ...

Enveloped viruses were more likely to undergo cross-species transmission than nonenveloped viruses. It was noted that enveloped viruses tend to have a higher proportion of zoonotic spread than non ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a large, enveloped RNA virus, meaning it is surrounded by an extra layer of cell membrane that allows it to fuse with healthy cells in our body.