Chikungunya and arthritis: An overview

R Kumar, S Ahmed, HA Parray, S Das - Travel medicine and infectious …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chikungunya is caused by CHIKV (chikungunya virus), an emerging and re-emerging
arthropod-vectored viral infection that causes a febrile disease with primarily long term …

Overview on chikungunya virus infection: from epidemiology to state-of-the-art experimental models

LEC Constant, BF Rajsfus, PH Carneiro… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is currently one of the most relevant arboviruses to public
health. It is a member of the Togaviridae family and alphavirus genus and causes an …

Nonstructural proteins of alphavirus—potential targets for drug development

F Abu Bakar, LFP Ng - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Alphaviruses are enveloped, positive single-stranded RNA viruses, typically transmitted by
arthropods. They often cause arthralgia or encephalitic diseases in infected humans and …

Mechanisms of innate immune evasion in re-emerging RNA viruses

DY Ma, MS Suthar - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•RNA viruses passively evade host detection by masking viral PAMPs and
replicating within vesicles.•Many emerging viruses harbor multiple strategies for innate …

Mutations conferring a noncytotoxic phenotype on chikungunya virus replicons compromise enzymatic properties of nonstructural protein 2

A Utt, PK Das, M Varjak, V Lulla, A Lulla… - Journal of virology, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)(genus Alphavirus) has a positive-sense RNA genome. CHIKV
nonstructural protein 2 (nsP2) proteolytically processes the viral nonstructural polyprotein …

The interplay of viral and host factors in chikungunya virus infection: targets for antiviral strategies

KZ Wong, JJH Chu - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has re-emerged as one of the many medically important
arboviruses that have spread rampantly across the world in the past decade. Infected …

Chikungunya virus overcomes polyamine depletion by mutation of nsP1 and the opal stop codon to confer enhanced replication and fitness

BC Mounce, T Cesaro, L Vlajnić, A Vidiņa… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Polyamines, which are small positively charge molecules present in all cells, play important
roles in the replication of DNA and RNA viruses. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) relies on …

[PDF][PDF] Chikungunya vaccines: An update in 2023

P Roongaraya… - Asian Pacific Journal of …, 2023 - apjai-journal.org
A recent chikungunya outbreak affected 1.5 million cases in more than 60 countries. The
virus causes low mortality but moderate to severe morbidities such as high fever, myalgia …

Selective estrogen receptor modulators limit alphavirus infection by targeting the viral capping enzyme nsP1

R Mudgal, C Bharadwaj, A Dubey… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Alphaviruses cause animal or human diseases that are characterized by febrile illness,
debilitating arthralgia, or encephalitis. Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), a …

Palmitoylated cysteines in chikungunya virus nsP1 are critical for targeting to cholesterol-rich plasma membrane microdomains with functional consequences for viral …

W Bakhache, A Neyret, E Bernard, A Merits… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
In mammalian cells, alphavirus replication complexes are anchored to the plasma
membrane. This interaction with lipid bilayers is mediated through the viral methyl …