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Sep 2026
SARS-CoV-2 maturation driven by a mechano-active nucleocapsid-RNA condensate
It is demonstrated that N protein-vgRNA condensates are spontaneously enveloped by lipid bilayer membranes, whereas condensates formed by N protein alone or with genomic RNA fragments fail to undergo envelopment and instead adhere to or weakly deform membranes.
Rini Ravindran, Benjamin Guérin, Ahmad Mahmood et al.
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