Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Virus Quantification, Rna-Dependent Rna Polymerase, Membrane Fusion Protein
23 Dec 2016
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Viruses are everywhere, everyone has been or is effected by viruses. Because of our immune system, we are protected from these viruses, we are protected by our intrinsic mechanisms (skin, etc. Sometimes viruses are powerful and get over this wall too, and then they face the adaptive immune response, some can even pass over this immune response, and when this happens we are pretty much dead. A virus that has passed the intrinsic, innate and adaptive immune repose will most likely kill you. All viruses however are not evil, they can do good things as well. Example the tulip breaking virus (tbv) causes a breaking in the production of proteins that result in the pigmentation resulting in the broken tulip phenomenon. This particle contains the genome, is used to transfer the genome from host to host, Genomes can also establish themselves inside of the host to ensure long term survival,
