New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Here, the authors show that VCP/p97 extracts the DNA polymerase α/Primase complex from chromatin, preventing excessive priming in the lagging strand and reducing the activation of the replication ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...