Solving a Levinthal's paradox for virus assembly identifies a unique antiviral strategy

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One of the important puzzles in virology is how viruses assemble the protein containers that package their genomes rapidly and efficiently in vivo while avoiding triggering their hosts' antiviral defenses. Viral assembly appears directed toward a relatively small subset of the vast number of all possible assembly intermediates and pathways, akin to Levinthal's paradox for the folding of polypeptide chains. Using...

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