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Uncoat

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm intransitive

    "It takes only minutes, after entry into a cell, for a virus particle to uncoat."

  2. 2
    To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid. transitive

Etymology

From un- + coat.

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