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. 2011 Jun 15;2011:181646. doi: 10.1155/2011/181646

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Preparation of VLPs. Viral genes encoding for the viral capsid proteins are inserted into a plasmid, which is transcripted and translated in a eukaryotic cell. Viral capsid proteins are synthetised and assemble spontaneously into VLPs.