New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Study: An update on inhibitors targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for COVID-19 treatment: Promises and challenges.Image Credit: tigerder/Shutterstock. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a ...

What am I looking at? This is a 3D rendering of an RNA polymerase II enzyme from baker’s yeast, created using actual molecular data to reconstruct its shape and active sites. What looks like a ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that HSV-1 reshapes the human genome's structure, making it compact ... with the virus hijacking a key human enzyme – ...

More poly-A tail; Pol-II, DNA-dependent RNA-polymerase II; L-HDAg, large hepatitis D antigen; S-HDAg, small hepatitis D antigen. SOURCE: ACCESS Health International HDV RNA Replication ...

Until now, the structure and function of the Nipah virus polymerase remained poorly understood. Unraveling this piece of the viral apparatus is the critical first step toward developing ways to ...

RNA polymerase II, or Pol II, doesn’t start working on its own. ... But getting to a clear structure of the entire complex was far from a given: it was considered too big, ...