Sentence examples for attach to a virus from inspiring English sources

Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins produced by the immune system that attach to a virus and block its outer receptors — sort of the way sweater fuzz attaches to Velcro and renders it unsticky.

Dr. Wilson and his colleagues found that this tendriled antibody can attach to a wide range of flu viruses.

Last year scientists confirmed that it takes at least two steps for HIV to enter a human cell: First, the virus must attach to a receptor molecule on the cell's surface, then it has to change its shape to match one of two coreceptors.

This means that the software will notify you when it detects that you are downloading a virus attached to a file or if a website tries to attack your computer with viruses.

For viral entry into cells it is essential that the mousetrap shuts when a mouse is eating from the cheese, in other words when the virus is attaching to a target cell.

HAs of influenza A virus contain one stearate attached to a cysteine positioned at the end of the transmembrane region and two palmitates attached to cytoplasmic cysteines.

Second, the microbicide would prevent any virus that escapes from attaching to a woman's cells, the way H.I.V. starts to infect.

HEF of influenza C virus has only one stearate attached to a transmembrane cysteine.

This test is a common way to determine how tightly antibodies attach to the viruses, an indicator of how much protection they provide against infection.

These antibodies attach to viruses and stop the virus from infecting cells.

This timing is coordinated by the activation of Env's spring-loaded fusion machinery only when the virus is attaching to an infectable cell via CD4.