HSV-1, bacteriophages

Pressurized virus blasts its infectious DNA into human cells

By American Chemical Society Alex Evilevitch, Ph.D.—— Bio and Archives--July 24, 2013

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The virus that causes those painful lip blisters known as cold sores has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its infectious DNA into human cells, scientists are reporting in a new study. Discovery of the pressure-driven infection mechanism — the first in a human virus — opens the door to new treatments for viral infections, they add in a study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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