uncoated
/AH0 N K OW1 T IH0 D/verb
- 1
(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.”
- 2
To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.
adjective
- 1
Not coated
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uncoat, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uncoated