Interferons are synthesized by cells in response to many different viral infections. The common result of the interferon-induced antiviral state is the cessation of protein synthesis. Predict the effect of the following treatments of the indicated cell on protein synthesis in that cell . This indicates that there are differences between viruses and cells. In the following table are listed several features of either viruses or cells or both.
New individuals assemble by spontaneous association of subunit structures.
Subunit vaccines consist of one viral protein that can be given to stimulate an immune response. You wish to produce a subunit vaccine for a positive strand RNA virus in the Baltimore classification scheme that will stimulate the production of neutralizing antibodies in the person receiving it. The capsid protein is on the outside and will allow interaction with neutralizing antibodies. A protein attached to the RNA genome would be on the inside and unavailable to neutralizing antibodies. Positive strand RNA viruses do not have virion polymerases.