Virology, Emerging Diseases & vaccines

Viral Replication

Viral replication is a process of formation of biological viruses in the target host cells during the infection process. Adsorption,penetration,viral genome replication,assembly,maturation and release are the major steps involved in viral replication. David Baltimore, a nobel prize winner in biology has created Baltimore classification system. Ribosomal frame shifiting is an alternative translation of mrna sequence by changing the open reading frame. Reverse transcriptase are the enzymes that are encoded and used by reverse transcribing viruses which is used in the viral replication process.