uncoat
English
Verb
uncoat (third-person singular simple present uncoats, present participle uncoating, simple past and past participle uncoated)
- (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.
- (virology, transitive) To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.
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