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Dengue virus

Two hosts, two structures

Dengue virus has a highly ordered structure when grown in mosquito cells at 28 °C. The finding that the virus expands into a less ordered form at 37 °C indicates that the human immune system does not see it as we previously thought.

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Figure 1: Compact and expanded structures of dengue virus.

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Rey, F. Two hosts, two structures. Nature 497, 443–444 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497443a

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