Cytomegalovirus hijacks human enzyme for replication

(Princeton University) Researchers at Princeton have discovered that cytomegalovirus manipulates a process called fatty acid elongation, which makes the very-long-chain fatty acids necessary for virus replication. Published in the journal Cell Reports on March 3, the research team identified a specific human enzyme -- elongase enzyme 7 -- that the virus induces to turn on fatty acid elongation.
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