Fig. 6: SARS-CoV-2 virion fused to the plasma membrane and released its contents into a ciliated cell.
From: Ultrastructural insight into SARS-CoV-2 entry and budding in human airway epithelium
a TEM image of a virion fused to a host cell and higher magnification of the boxed region (b). c–f Tomogram generated of the attached virion with false colours (e, f) to indicate viral and plasma membrane (red), nucleocapsid protein (blue), and a neck-like structure (yellow). e, f The viral membrane is continuous with the host cell plasma membrane and the nucleocapsid contents are diluted as they are released into the host cell. The white arrowheads highlight a, b a clathrin-coated pit and e, f a clathrin-coated vesicle. Scale bars a 200 nm and b–f 100 nm.
