Structural insights into RNA polymerases of negative-sense RNA viruses

AJW Te Velthuis, JM Grimes, E Fodor - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
RNA viruses include many important human and animal pathogens, such as the influenza
viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, Ebola virus, measles virus and rabies virus. The …

Therapeutic strategies to target the Ebola virus life cycle

T Hoenen, A Groseth, H Feldmann - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Following the Ebola virus disease epidemic in west Africa, there has been increased
awareness of the need for improved therapies for emerging diseases, including viral …

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

JH Kuhn, GK Amarasinghe… - Journal of General …, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
Members of the family Filoviridae produce variously shaped, often filamentous, enveloped
virions containing linear non-segmented, negative-sense RNA genomes of 15–19 kb …

New perspectives on the biogenesis of viral inclusion bodies in negative-sense RNA virus infections

O Dolnik, GK Gerresheim, N Biedenkopf - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Infections by negative strand RNA viruses (NSVs) induce the formation of viral inclusion
bodies (IBs) in the host cell that segregate viral as well as cellular proteins to enable efficient …

Identification of interferon-stimulated genes that attenuate Ebola virus infection

M Kuroda, PJ Halfmann, L Hill-Batorski… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest outbreak ever recorded, with over
28,000 reported infections; this devastating epidemic emphasized the need to understand …

Structural landscape of the respiratory syncytial virus nucleocapsids

L Gonnin, A Desfosses, M Bacia-Verloop… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) is a prevalent cause of severe
respiratory infections in children and the elderly. The helical HRSV nucleocapsid is a …

Assembly and transport of filovirus nucleocapsids

O Dolnik, S Becker - PLoS Pathogens, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Filovirus-infected cells are characterized by typical cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs)
located in the perinuclear region. The formation of these IBs is induced mainly by the …

Interactions of amyloid coaggregates with biomolecules and its relevance to neurodegeneration

K Murakami, K Ono - The FASEB Journal, 2022 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins is a pathological hallmark of various
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and …

An overview of the recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy for life sciences

A Assaiya, AP Burada, S Dhingra… - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM) has superseded X-ray crystallography and NMR to
emerge as a popular and effective tool for structure determination in recent times. It has …

Formation and function of liquid-like viral factories in negative-sense single-stranded RNA virus infections

JM Su, MZ Wilson, CE Samuel, D Ma - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a major physiochemical principle to
organize intracellular membrane-less structures. Studies with non-segmented negative …