Fusion of enveloped viruses in endosomes

JM White, GR Whittaker - Traffic, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ari Helenius launched the field of enveloped virus fusion in endosomes with a seminal
paper in the Journal of Cell Biology in 1980. In the intervening years, a great deal has been …

Antibody responses to viral infections: a structural perspective across three different enveloped viruses

CD Murin, IA Wilson, AB Ward - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antibodies serve as critical barriers to viral infection. Humoral immunity to a virus is achieved
through the dual role of antibodies in communicating the presence of invading pathogens in …

[PDF][PDF] TMEM106B is a receptor mediating ACE2-independent SARS-CoV-2 cell entry

J Baggen, M Jacquemyn, L Persoons, E Vanstreels… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with broad tissue tropism, a characteristic often determined by
the availability of entry receptors on host cells. Here, we show that TMEM106B, a lysosomal …

Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysis

RN Kirchdoerfer, N Wang, J Pallesen, D Wrapp… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in 2002 as a highly
transmissible pathogenic human betacoronavirus. The viral spike glycoprotein (S) utilizes …

The discovery of Bombali virus adds further support for bats as hosts of ebolaviruses

T Goldstein, SJ Anthony, A Gbakima, BH Bird… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we describe the complete genome of a new ebolavirus, Bombali virus (BOMV)
detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone (little free-tailed (Chaerephon pumilus) and …

[PDF][PDF] Structural basis for cholesterol transport-like activity of the hedgehog receptor patched

Y Zhang, DP Bulkley, Y Xin, KJ Roberts, DE Asarnow… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Hedgehog protein signals mediate tissue patterning and maintenance by binding to and
inactivating their common receptor Patched, a 12-transmembrane protein that otherwise …

Cell entry and release of quasi-enveloped human hepatitis viruses

A Das, EE Rivera-Serrano, X Yin, CM Walker… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Infectious hepatitis type A and type E are caused by phylogenetically distinct single-
stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that were once considered to be non-enveloped …

Viral membrane fusion: a dance between proteins and lipids

JM White, AE Ward, L Odongo… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
There are at least 21 families of enveloped viruses that infect mammals, and many contain
members of high concern for global human health. All enveloped viruses have a dedicated …

[HTML][HTML] Structural insights into the Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1)-mediated cholesterol transfer and Ebola infection

X Gong, H Qian, X Zhou, J Wu, T Wan, P Cao… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is associated with mutations in NPC1 and NPC2,
whose gene products are key players in the endosomal/lysosomal egress of low-density …

NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1 (NPC1)-mediated cholesterol export from lysosomes

SR Pfeffer - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Low-density lipoprotein particles are taken up by cells and delivered to the lysosome where
their cholesterol esters are cleaved off by acid lipase. The released, free cholesterol is then …