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. 2021 Dec 31;10(1):62. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10010062

Figure 2.

Figure 2

SARS CoV-2 life cycle: (1) Binding and viral entry to the host cell via endocytosis; (2) release of viral genome; (3) translation and (4) replication of RNA genome; (5) transcription and translation of RNA into protein; (6) assembly and budding, followed by (7) mature virion formation; and (8) release of the new virion from the host cell. (Redrawn by the authors based on second figure in Ref. [22]).