Brief update on endocytosis of nanomedicines

S Patel, J Kim, M Herrera, A Mukherjee… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
The complexity of nanoscale interactions between biomaterials and cells has limited the
realization of the ultimate vision of nanotechnology in diagnostics and therapeutics. As such …

Membrane rafts: portals for viral entry

I Ripa, S Andreu, JA López-Guerrero… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Membrane rafts are dynamic, small (10–200 nm) domains enriched with cholesterol and
sphingolipids that compartmentalize cellular processes. Rafts participate in roles essential to …

Dynasore-not just a dynamin inhibitor

G Preta, JG Cronin, IM Sheldon - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2015 - Springer
Dynamin is a GTPase protein that is essential for membrane fission during clathrin-mediated
endocytosis in eukaryotic cells. Dynasore is a GTPase inhibitor that rapidly and reversibly …

The state of lipid rafts: from model membranes to cells

M Edidin - Annual review of biophysics and biomolecular …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Lipid raft microdomains were conceived as part of a mechanism for the
intracellular trafficking of lipids and lipid-anchored proteins. The raft hypothesis is based on …

Virus-like particles: passport to immune recognition

EVL Grgacic, DA Anderson - Methods, 2006 - Elsevier
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are formed by the self-assembly of envelope and/or capsid
proteins from many viruses. In many cases such VLPs have structural characteristics and …

Cellular entry of ebola virus involves uptake by a macropinocytosis-like mechanism and subsequent trafficking through early and late endosomes

MF Saeed, AA Kolokoltsov, T Albrecht… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV), a highly pathogenic zoonotic virus, poses serious public health,
ecological and potential bioterrorism threats. Currently no specific therapy or vaccine is …

Ebolavirus Is Internalized into Host Cells via Macropinocytosis in a Viral Glycoprotein-Dependent Manner

A Nanbo, M Imai, S Watanabe, T Noda… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Ebolavirus (EBOV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus that causes
severe hemorrhagic fever with mortality rates of up to 90% in humans and nonhuman …

Greasing their way: lipid modifications determine protein association with membrane rafts

I Levental, M Grzybek, K Simons - Biochemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Increasing evidence suggests that biological membranes can be laterally subdivided into
domains enriched in specific lipid and protein components and that these domains may be …

SARS-CoV-2 viral budding and entry can be modeled using BSL-2 level virus-like particles

CB Plescia, EA David, D Patra, R Sengupta… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in
December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and expeditiously spread across the globe causing a …

Virus entry, assembly, budding, and membrane rafts

N Chazal, D Gerlier - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
As intracellular parasites, viruses rely heavily on the use of numerous cellular machineries
for completion of their replication cycle. The recent discovery of the heterogeneous …