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 …

A bias of Asparagine to Lysine mutations in SARS-CoV-2 outside the receptor binding domain affects protein flexibility

JC Boer, Q Pan, JK Holien, TB Nguyen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction COVID-19 pandemic has been threatening public health and economic
development worldwide for over two years. Compared with the original SARS-CoV-2 strain …

IRF2 cooperates with phosphoprotein of spring viremia of carp virus to suppress antiviral response in zebrafish

W Huang, X Zhao, N Ji, J Guo, J Feng, K Chen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT IFN regulatory factor (IRF) 2 belongs to the IRF1 subfamily, and its functions are
not yet fully understood. In this study, we showed that IRF2a was a negative regulator of the …

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 …

Molecular basis of functional effects of phosphorylation of the C-terminal domain of the rabies virus P protein

J Zhan, E Watts, AM Brice, RD Metcalfe… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The rabies virus (RABV) phosphoprotein (P protein) is expressed as several isoforms, which
differ in nucleocytoplasmic localization and microtubule (MT) association, mediated by …

Engineering G protein‐coupled receptors for stabilization

JPL Velloso, AGC de Sá, DEV Pires… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) are one of the most important families of targets for
drug discovery. One of the limiting steps in the study of GPCRs has been their stability, with …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of mechanisms of the rabies virus P protein-nucleocapsid interaction using engineered N-protein peptides and potential applications in antivirals …

J Zhan, S Chakraborty, A Sethi, YF Mok, F Yan… - Antiviral Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The Phosphoprotein (P protein) of the rabies virus has multiple roles in virus replication. A
critical function is to act as a cofactor in genome replication and mRNA production through …

Implication of the nuclear trafficking of rabies virus P3 protein in viral pathogenicity

AM Brice, E Watts, B Hirst, DA Jans, N Ito, GW Moseley - Traffic, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although the majority of viruses of the family Mononegvirales replicate exclusively in the
host cell cytoplasm, many of these viruses encode proteins that traffic between the nucleus …

Deactivation of the antiviral state by rabies virus through targeting and accumulation of persistently phosphorylated STAT1

G Manokaran, MD Audsley, H Funakoda… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Antagonism of the interferon (IFN)-mediated antiviral state is critical to infection by rabies
virus (RABV) and other viruses, and involves interference in the IFN induction and signaling …

Substitution of S179P in the Lyssavirus Phosphoprotein Impairs Its Interferon Antagonistic Function

Z Wang, Y Yuan, Y Zhang, C Zhang, B Sui… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lyssaviruses cause rabies, which is an acute neurological disease responsible for more
than 59,000 human deaths annually and has no available effective treatments. The …