Virion maturation is a process that takes place after separation of the viral infectious particle from host cell by budding or sealing of spherical capsid. It consist in irreversible rearangement and/or cleavage of viral proteins that are activating the virion to be competent for reinfection.
Many virus particles maturate some how, some of them to activate their fusion protein once outside of host cell, others like retroviruses to finish assembly of the genome infection structures
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Morphogenesis of the Infectious HIV-1 Virion
Jun-Ichi Sakuragi
Front Microbiol 2011; 2: 242
Jun-Ichi Sakuragi
Front Microbiol 2011; 2: 242
Retrovirus maturation-an extraordinary structural transformation
Simone Mattei, Florian Km Schur, John Ag Briggs
Curr Opin Virol March 21, 2016; 18: 27?35
Simone Mattei, Florian Km Schur, John Ag Briggs
Curr Opin Virol March 21, 2016; 18: 27?35