uncoat

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uncoat

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From un- + coat.

verb uncoats · uncoating · uncoated

intransitive (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm It takes only minutes, after entry into a cell, for a virus particle to uncoat.
transitive To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.

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@misc{uncoat_2026,
  title = {uncoat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/uncoat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}