Facilitator Questions

Throughout this lecture, it is stressed that viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites that require cellular factors for all aspects of the viral lifecycle. What does this imply about the origin of viruses?

What causes viruses to “emerge” in the human population?

If you were to design new antiviral drugs would you target viral or cellular factors and why?

What cellular factors not present in the artificial system may contribute to these major differences in virus motility?

What advantage might surfing along filopodia give a virus during human infection?

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