What does uncoat mean?
Uncoat means (virology, intransitive) (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm.
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(virology, intransitive) (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm.
It takes only minutes, after entry into a cell, for a virus particle to uncoat.
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Uncoat means (virology, intransitive) (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm.
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It takes only minutes, after entry into a cell, for a virus particle to uncoat.
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