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 …

Structural and functional aspects of Ebola virus proteins

S Jain, E Martynova, A Rizvanov, S Khaiboullina… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ebola virus (EBOV), member of genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, have a non-segmented,
single-stranded RNA that contains seven genes:(a) nucleoprotein (NP),(b) viral protein 35 …

[HTML][HTML] Lrp1 is a host entry factor for Rift Valley fever virus

SS Ganaie, MM Schwarz, CM McMillen, DA Price… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic pathogen with pandemic potential. RVFV entry is
mediated by the viral glycoprotein (Gn), but host entry factors remain poorly defined. Our …

Protein interaction mapping identifies RBBP6 as a negative regulator of Ebola virus replication

J Batra, JF Hultquist, D Liu, O Shtanko, J Von Dollen… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) infection often results in fatal illness in humans, yet little is known about
how EBOV usurps host pathways during infection. To address this, we used affinity tag …

Intracellular Ebola Virus nucleocapsid assembly revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography

R Watanabe, D Zyla, D Parekh, C Hong, Y Jones… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Filoviruses, including the Ebola and Marburg viruses, cause hemorrhagic fevers with up to
90% lethality. The viral nucleocapsid is assembled by polymerization of the nucleoprotein …

[HTML][HTML] The Ebola virus nucleoprotein recruits the host PP2A-B56 phosphatase to activate transcriptional support activity of VP30

T Kruse, N Biedenkopf, EPT Hertz, E Dietzel… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Transcription of the Ebola virus genome depends on the viral transcription factor VP30 in its
unphosphorylated form, but the underlying molecular mechanism of VP30 …

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 …

Identification of motif-based interactions between SARS-CoV-2 protein domains and human peptide ligands pinpoint antiviral targets

F Mihalič, C Benz, E Kassa, R Lindqvist… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The virus life cycle depends on host-virus protein-protein interactions, which often involve a
disordered protein region binding to a folded protein domain. Here, we used proteomic …

Distinct genome replication and transcription strategies within the growing filovirus family

AJ Hume, E Mühlberger - Journal of molecular biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Research on filoviruses has historically focused on the highly pathogenic ebola-and
marburgviruses. Indeed, until recently, these were the only two genera in the filovirus family …

Electron cryo-microscopy structure of Ebola virus nucleoprotein reveals a mechanism for nucleocapsid-like assembly

Z Su, C Wu, L Shi, P Luthra, GD Pintilie, B Johnson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Ebola virus nucleoprotein (eNP) assembles into higher-ordered structures that form the viral
nucleocapsid (NC) and serve as the scaffold for viral RNA synthesis. However, molecular …