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SUBMITTER: Rowell CER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7405386 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Food and environmental virology 20200805 4
Outside the host, viruses will eventually lose their ability to infect cells due to conformational changes that occur to proteins on the viral capsid. In order to undergo a conformational change, these proteins require energy to activate the chemical reaction that leads to the conformational change. In this study, data from the literature is used to calculate the energy required for viral inactivation for a variety of different viruses by means of the Arrhenius equation. We find that some viruse ...[more]