Sentence examples for bind to the virus from inspiring English sources

On one of the four light-guiding channels, the researchers attach antibodies that bind to the virus.

In the case of many viruses, resistance is related to the presence on the cell surface of protein receptors that bind to the virus, allowing it to gain entry into the cell and thus cause infection.

Thus, in essence, either the receptor or the pocket factor can bind to the virus, but not both (Smith et al., 1986; Rossmann, 1989).

Stitching these genes into a standard lab strain called PR8 gives researchers an approximation of the actual virus and allows preliminary experiments, for instance to test if existing antibodies bind to the virus.

When the adaptive immune system of a vertebrate encounters a virus, it produces specific antibodies that bind to the virus and often render it non-infectious.

The discrepancy between oseltamivir and zanamivir susceptibility is due to differences in how oseltamivir and zanamivir bind to the virus.

"The vaccine binds to the virus and prevents it from getting inside your cells in the first place," he says.

Their search turned up a suspect: a piece of a receptor for hypocretin resembles part of the H1N1 influenza nucleoprotein which binds to the virus genome and plays a key role in its replication.

Conformational reorganization of SARS spike glycoprotein has been demonstrated from cryo-electron microscopic analysis whereby structural transition of the spike glycoprotein has been observed when irradiated SARS-CoV virion binds to the virus receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE2) [26].

The Dengue virus enters a host cell when the E protein binds to the virus receptor [10] on the host cell surface and activates its conformational rearrangement, causing the E protein in its dimeric pre-fusion form to transform into a trimeric post-fusion structure.

LJ001 binds to the virus envelope and inhibits virus-cell fusion for a large range of enveloped viruses, including EBOV.