Innate immune signaling and role of glial cells in herpes simplex virus-and rabies virus-induced encephalitis

L Feige, LM Zaeck, J Sehl-Ewert, S Finke, H Bourhy - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The environment of the central nervous system (CNS) represents a double-edged sword in
the context of viral infections. On the one hand, the infectious route for viral pathogens is …

Research advances on the interactions between rabies virus structural proteins and host target cells: Accrued knowledge from the application of reverse genetics …

J Yin, X Wang, R Mao, Z Zhang, X Gao, Y Luo, Y Sun… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rabies is a lethal zoonotic disease caused by lyssaviruses, such as rabies virus (RABV),
that results in nearly 100% mortality once clinical symptoms appear. There are no curable …

Host desmin interacts with RABV matrix protein and facilitates virus propagation

W Zhang, Y Liu, M Li, J Zhu, X Li, TR Luo, J Liang - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microfilaments and microtubules, two crucial structures of cytoskeletal networks, are usurped
by various viruses for their entry, egress, and/or intracellular trafficking, including the Rabies …

Single amino acid substitution in the matrix protein of rabies virus is associated with neurovirulence in mice

M Harada, A Matsuu, Y Kaku, A Okutani, Y Inoue… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Rabies is a fatal encephalitic infectious disease caused by the rabies virus (RABV). RABV is
highly neurotropic and replicates in neuronal cell lines in vitro. The RABV fixed strain, HEP …

The Amino Acid at Position 95 in the Matrix Protein of Rabies Virus Is Involved in Antiviral Stress Granule Formation in Infected Cells

I Kojima, K Onomoto, W Zuo, M Ozawa… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Stress granules (SGs) are dynamic structures that store cytosolic messenger
ribonucleoproteins. SGs have recently been shown to serve as a platform for activating …

Exogenous expression of both matrix protein and glycoprotein facilitates infectious viral particle production of Borna disease virus 1

T Kanda, M Sakai, A Makino… - Journal of General …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) is a non-segmented, negative-strand RNA virus that is
characterized by persistent infection in the nucleus and low production of progeny virions …