Co-option (biology)
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The term co-option refers to the capacity of intracellular parasites to use host-cell proteins to complete their vital cycle.[citation needed] Viruses use this mechanism, as their genome is small.[1]
It is also used in a different sense to refer to characters that have been exapted.[2]
Flu virus
Because of its medical importance, the
H1N1 infection. It is important to emphasize that these targets are not virus proteins, but host-cell
proteins.