Definition of "picornavirus" []

• Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell. (noun)

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• "The disease does not spread to humans but there is an identically named human illness that is caused by another member of the picornavirus family."
• "By this translation enhancement such an internal picornavirus IRES reduces possible effects of mutations or inhibitors of translation."
• "We used retrovirus-mediated transduction to introduce FoxP3 or FoxP3 with anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family molecule Bcl-xL linked by a 2A picornavirus self-cleaving peptide into CD4+ T cells to generate Tregs."