Article is at: http://www.virology.ws/2009/04/30/structure-of-influenza-virus/This is an article about the H1N1 virus. It talks about some facts about the virus, its shape and the way it should look like under a telescope. The infectious particle is roughly spherical. It is an enveloped virus – that is, the outer layer is a lipid membrane which is taken from the host cell in which the virus multiplies. Inside the lipid membrane are ‘spikes’, which are proteins which according to the website are known as glycoproteins. Beneath something known as the lipid membrane is a viral protein called M1, or matrix protein. The matrix protein forms a shell, which gives strength and rigidity to the something known as the lipid envelope.Inside something known as a viron, the thing that determines the genetic material of the virus, known as RNA, codes the virus. For the H1N1 virus, there are 8 RNAs, and each connect to several proteins, as shown from the diagram.
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