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Definitions of uncoat:
  • verb:   (virology, intransitive) (of the capsid shell) to dissociate from the viral core in the host cell cytoplasm
  • verb:   (virology, transitive) To remove the viral capsid of a virus, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.

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