Abstract: The nuclear phase of herpesvirus replication is regulated through the formation of regulatory multi-component protein complexes. Viral genomic replication is followed by nuclear capsid assembly, DNA encapsidation and nuclear egress. The latter has been studied intensely pointing to the formation of a viral core nuclear egress complex (NEC) that recruits a multimeric assembly of viral and cellular factors for the reorganization of the nuclear envelope. To date, the mechanism of the association of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) capsids with the NEC, which in turn initiates the specific steps of nuclear capsid budding, remains undefined. Here, we provide electron microscopy-based data demonstrating the association of both nuclear capsids and NEC proteins at nuclear lamina budding sites. Specifically, immunogold labelling of the core NEC constituent pUL53 and NEC-associated viral kinase pUL97 suggested an intranuclear NEC-capsid interaction. Staining patterns with phospho-specific lamin A/C ...

Abstract: The nuclear phase of herpesvirus replication is regulated through the formation of regulatory multi-component protein complexes. Viral genomic replication is followed by nuclear capsid assembly, DNA encapsidation and nuclear egress. The latter has been studied intensely pointing to the formation of a viral core nuclear egress complex (NEC) that recruits a multimeric assembly of viral and cellular factors for the reorganization of the nuclear envelope. To date, the mechanism of the association of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) capsids with the NEC, which in turn initiates the specific steps of nuclear capsid budding, remains undefined. Here, we provide electron microscopy-based data demonstrating the association of both nuclear capsids and NEC proteins at nuclear lamina budding sites. Specifically, immunogold labelling of the core NEC constituent pUL53 and NEC-associated viral kinase pUL97 suggested an intranuclear NEC-capsid interaction. Staining patterns with phospho-specific lamin A/C ...

The nuclear phase of herpesvirus replication is regulated through the formation of regulatory multi-component protein complexes. Viral genomic replication is followed by nuclear capsid assembly, DNA encapsidation and nuclear egress. The latter has been studied intensely pointing to the formation of a viral core nuclear egress complex (NEC) that recruits a multimeric assembly of viral and cellular factors for the reorganization of the nuclear envelope. To date, the mechanism of the association of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) capsids with the NEC, which in turn initiates the specific steps of nuclear capsid budding, remains undefined. Here, we provide electron microscopy-based data demonstrating the association of both nuclear capsids and NEC proteins at nuclear lamina budding sites. Specifically, immunogold labelling of the core NEC constituent pUL53 and NEC-associated viral kinase pUL97 suggested an intranuclear NEC-capsid interaction. Staining patterns with phospho-specific lamin A/C antibodies are

View pdf The replication of herpesviruses, including human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), is based on a nuclear phase followed by viral egress through the nuclear envelope. For nuclear egress, the transient destabilization of the nuclear envelope, notably the nuclear lamina, is an event with central importance. The destabilization of this rigid proteinaceous network is achieved by the function of lamina-associated effector proteins (HCMV egress proteins) which particularly recruit protein kinases to phosphorylate nuclear lamins. This process is reminiscent of a similar sequence of events occurring during cellular mitosis. In contrast to mitosis, however, nuclear destabilization during HCMV replication does not involve the entire nuclear envelope but is restricted to locally defined areas and this reprogramming seems to be achieved by a small number of viral effectors. Thus, the virus-specific nuclear destabilization is based on the formation and activity of a viral-cellular nuclear egress complex ...

Herpesviren nutzen einen Vesikel-vermittelten Transportweg für die Translokation von Nukleokapsiden aus dem Zellkern, um für die weitere Virusmorphogenese in das Zytoplasma zu gelangen. Den dafür notwendigen Kernfreisetzungskomplex (nuclear egress complex; NEC) bilden zwei konservierte herpesvirale Proteine, die als pUL34 und pUL31 bezeichnet werden. Die Kristallstrukturen der NECs aus verschiedenen Herpesviren zeigten eine stabile Interaktion zwischen der N-terminalen Domäne von pUL31 und dem Kern von pUL34. Darüber hinaus gehören die am stärksten konservierten Reste von pUL31 zu einem Zinkfinger-Motiv (ZNF). Zur Klärung der funktionellen Bedeutung des ZNF-Motivs in PrV pUL31, das aus drei Cysteinen (C73, C89 und C92) der CR1 und einem Histidin (H188) der CR3 besteht, wurden die Cysteine einzeln zu Serinresten und das Histidin H188 zu Alanin substituiert. Funktionelle Analysen der mutierten Proteine, die in vitro mit artifiziellen Membranen und in situ in eukaryotischen Zellen durchgeführt

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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Styria,[9] to Aurelia (née Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger. His father was the local chief of police and had served in World War II as a Hauptfeldwebel after voluntarily joining the Nazi Party in 1938,[10] was wounded during the battle of Stalingrad,[11] but was discharged in 1943 following a bout of malaria. He married Schwarzeneggers mother on October 20, 1945; he was 38 and she was 23. According to Schwarzenegger, his parents were very strict: Back then in Austria it was a very different world ... if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared.[12] He grew up in a Catholic family who attended Mass every Sunday.[13][14]. Gustav had a preference for his elder son, Meinhard, over Schwarzenegger.[15] His favoritism was strong and blatant, which stemmed from unfounded suspicion that Schwarzenegger was not his biological child.[16] Schwarzenegger has said his father had no patience for listening or ...

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The divergently transcribed DIT1 and DIT2 genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which belong to the mid-late class of sporulation-specific genes, are subject to Ssn6-Tup1-mediated repression in mitotic cells. The Ssn6-Tup1 complex, which is required for repression of diverse sets of coordinately regulated genes, is known to be recruited to target genes by promoter-specific DNA-binding proteins. In this study, we show that a 42-bp negative regulatory element (NRE) present in the DIT1-DIT2 intergenic region consists of two distinct subsites and that a multimer of each subsite supports efficient Ssn6-Tup1-dependent repression of a CYC1-lacZ reporter gene. By genetic screening procedures, we identified DFG16, YGR122w, VPS36, and the DNA-binding proteins Rim101 and Nrg1 as potential mediators of NRE-directed repression. We show that Nrg1 and Rim101 bind simultaneously to adjacent target sites within the NRE in vitro and act as corepressors in vivo. We have found that the ability of Rim101 to be ...

In this paper, we consider the evolutionary competition between budding and lytic viral release strategies, using a delay differential equation model with distributed delay. When antibody is not established, the dynamics of competition depends on the respective basic reproductive ratios of the two viruses. If the basic reproductive ratio of budding virus is greater than that of lytic virus and one, budding virus can survive. When antibody is established for both strains but the neutralization capacities are the same for both strains, consequence of the competition also depends only on the basic reproductive ratios of the budding and lytic viruses. Using two concrete forms of the viral production functions, we are also able to conclude that budding virus will outcompete if the rates of viral production, death rates of infected cells and neutralizing capacities of the antibodies are the same for budding and lytic viruses. In this case, budding strategy would have an evolutionary advantage. However, if

TSG101 and ALIX both function in HIV budding and in vesicle formation at the multivesicular body (MVB), where they interact with other Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) pathway factors required for release of viruses and vesicles. Proteomic analyses revealed that ALIX and TSG1 …

Clearly, targeting receptors to the lumen of lysosomes will terminate signaling. Thus, diverting receptors from this fate and recycling them to the cell surface will prolong signaling. Although true for many RTKs, this effect has been most extensively studied in the context of the EGF receptor (EGFR; Grandal and Madshus, 2008; Sorkin and Goh, 2009), an oncogenic signaling receptor frequently up-regulated or activated in cancer cells. Here, tuning EGFR lifetime via modulation of its ubiquitination, which ultimately targets it for lysosomal degradation via the ESCRT pathway, is a strategy exploited by cancer cells to drive sustained receptor signaling. Thus, mutations in EGFR or Cbl, the E3 ligase that ubiquitinylates the EGFR, are frequently associated with cancers (Mellman and Yarden, 2013). Similarly, mitogenic stimuli, such as TGFα, which binds more weakly to EGFRs, dissociates in early endosomes, allowing unoccupied EGFR to avoid ubiquitination and be recycled to the cell surface (Longva et ...

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Während des Replikationszyklus der Herpesviren vermittelt ein heterodimerer Proteinkomplex, welcher als nuclear egress complex (NEC) bezeichnet wird, den Transport neu synthetisierter Nukleokapside vom Zellkern ins Zytoplasma. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, die molekularen Grundlagen des viralen Kernaustritts weiter aufzuklären und funktionelle Domänen in den NEC-Komponenten, welche beim Pseudorabies Virus als pUL31 und pUL34 bezeichnet werden, zu ermitteln. Bereits durchgeführte Analysen konnten zeigen, dass die Transmembrandomäne des pUL34, die für die Verankerung des NEC an der Kernmembran verantwortlich ist, bei HSV-1 und PrV durch heterologe Sequenzen ausgetauscht werden kann, ohne dass dabei die Proteinfunktion während des viralen Kernaustritts inhibiert wird. Beim PrV pUL34 kann sogar eine Substitution der 50 C-terminalen Aminosäuren toleriert werden, wohingegen die Substitution 100 C-terminaler Aminosäuren zum Funktionsverlust des Proteins führt. Zur Identifikation möglicher funktioneller

Previous studies have clearly established that VP16 serves multiple functions during HSV infection: it activates transcription of the viral IE genes, binds to the virion host shutoff protein vhs and downregulates its activity, and forms a complex with the tegument protein VP22 (19, 36, 41). In addition, VP16 is one of the most abundant components of the virion tegument (26, 49). The transcriptional activation function of VP16 can be inactivated without eliminating virus replication in tissue culture (1, 2, 53,56); in contrast, other VP16 mutations are lethal, and viral mutants harboring such lesions fail to produce infectious progeny virions under nonpermissive conditions (1, 58). These observations demonstrate that VP16 is required, either directly or indirectly, for one or more steps in virus assembly and/or maturation. Weinheimer et al. investigated the nature of this requirement in some detail and showed that the VP16-null mutant 8MA displays markedly reduced levels of encapsidated DNA and ...

Replication of HIV-1 requires the assembly and release of mature and infectious viral particles. In order to accomplish this goal, HIV-1 has evolved multiple methods to interact with the host cell. HIV-1 recruits the host cell ESCRT machinery to facilitate the release of nascent viral particles from the host cell membrane. Recruitment of these cellular factors is dependent on the presence of short motifs in Gag referred to as Late-domains. Deletion or mutation of these domains results in substantial decrease in the release of infectious virions. However, previously published work has indicated that over-expression of the E3 ubiquitin ligase, NEDD4.2s is able to robustly rescue release of otherwise budding-defective HIV-1 particles. This rescue is specific to the NEDD4.2s isoform as related E3 ubiquitin ligases display no ability to rescue particle release. In addition, rescue of particle release is dependent on the presence of the partial C2 domain and a catalytically active HECT domain of NEDD4.2s.

Host cells respond to viral infections by activating immune response genes that are not only involved in inflammation, but may also predispose cells to cancerous transformation. One such gene is BST-2, a type II transmembrane protein with a unique topology that endows it tethering and signaling potential. Through this ability to tether and signal, BST-2 regulates host response to viral infection either by inhibiting release of nascent viral particles or in some models inhibiting viral dissemination. However, despite its antiviral functions, BST-2 is involved in disease manifestation, a function linked to the ability of BST-2 to promote cell-to-cell interaction. Therefore, modulating BST-2 expression and/or activity has the potential to influence course of disease.

Quantum coherences and their effects on spectroscopy of large molecular aggregates are a very exciting issue these days due to recent experimental progress on both biological and synthetic samples showing unexpected long coherence times in large disordered systems. An ab initio calculation of the optical and energy/charge transfer processes in these large molecular aggregates is still a very complicated issue and theoreticians are facing several severe problems when trying to model quantum and optical effects in these systems. This workshop aims on bringing those people together who work on biological and/or synthetic systems to discuss and exchange ideas how to most efficiently and accurately solve the above mentioned problems. An important application in the described field of research are biological as well as artificial light-harvesting systems and solar cells.. Recent technological breakthroughs, such as ultra-fast pulsed lasers, high-performance computing and crystallography of ...

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The Murine Leukemia Virus (MLV) is a gammaretrovirus that hijack host components of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) for budding. To determine the minimal requirements for ESCRT factors in MLV viral and viral-like particles (VLP) release, an siRNA knockdown screen of ESCRT(-associated) proteins was performed in MLV-producing human cells. We found that MLV VLPs and virions primarily engage the ESCRT-I factor Tsg101 and marginally the ESCRT-associated adaptors Nedd4-1 and Alix to enter the ESCRT pathway. Conversely, the inactivation of ESCRT-II had no impact on VLP and virion egress. By analyzing the effects of individual ESCRT-III knockdowns, VLP and virion release was profoundly inhibited in CHMP2A- and CHMP4B-knockdown cells. In contrast, neither the CHMP2B and CHMP4A isoforms nor CHMP3, CHMP5, and CHMP6 were found to be essential. In case of CHMP1, we unexpectedly observed that the CHMP1A isoform was specifically required for virus budding, but dispensable for VLP release.

Tetherin/BST-2 is a host restriction factor that inhibits retrovirus release from infected cells in vitro by tethering nascent virions to the plasma membrane. However, contradictory data exists on whether Tetherin inhibits acute retrovirus infection in vivo. Previously, we reported that Tetherin-mediated inhibition of Friend retrovirus (FV) replication at 2 weeks post-infection correlated with stronger natural killer, CD4+ T and CD8+ T cell responses. Here, we further investigated the role of Tetherin in counteracting retrovirus replication in vivo. FV infection levels were similar between wild-type (WT) and Tetherin KO mice at 3 to 7 days post-infection despite removal of a potent restriction factor, Apobec3/Rfv3. However, during this phase of acute infection, Tetherin enhanced myeloid dendritic cell (DC) function. DCs from infected, but not uninfected, WT mice expressed significantly higher MHC class II and the co-stimulatory molecule CD80 compared to Tetherin KO DCs. Tetherin-associated DC ...

The opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans can grow over a wide pH range, which is associated with its ability to colonize and infect distinct host niches. C. albicans growth in neutral-alkaline environments requires proteolytic activation of the transcription factor Rim101. Rim101 activation requires Snf7, a member of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) pathway. We hypothesized that Snf7 has distinct functions in the Rim101 and ESCRT pathways, which we tested by alanine-scanning mutagenesis. While some snf7 alleles conferred no defects, we identified alleles with solely ESCRT-dependent, solely Rim101-dependent, or both Rim101- and ESCRT-dependent defects. Thus, Snf7 function in these two pathways is at least partially separable. Both Rim101- and ESCRT-dependent functions require Snf7 recruitment to the endosomal membrane and alleles that disrupted both pathways were found to localize normally, suggesting a downstream defect. Most alleles that conferred solely ...

BST-2/tetherin inhibits the release of enveloped viruses from the surface of infected cells and appears to be an intrinsic cellular anti-viral defense [31]. Although tetherins activity was initially identified against Vpu-defective HIV-1 particles, it has now been shown to restrict a broad range of enveloped viruses [10, 12] and the growing list of viral tetherin antagonists so far identified includes HIV-1 Vpu [3, 4], HIV-2 Env [13], SIV Nef [14-17], KSHV K5 [19] and Ebola GP [12]. These observations suggest that tetherin exerts a significant antiviral effect against enveloped viruses that successful pathogens must overcome.. The unusual topology of tetherin, existing as a dimer with two different membrane anchoring domains per monomer [20], has led to the suggestion that it could simultaneously be anchored in both host and viral membranes and thereby physically tether virions to the plasma membrane [3]. This suggests that simply removing tetherin from the cell surface could be the basis for ...

Inhibition of HIV-1 progeny virion release by cell-surface CD4 is relieved by expression of the viral Nef protein.s profile, publications, research topics, and co-authors

The life cycle of an adenovirus is divided into early and late phases, separated by the DNA replication process. In the early phase, the virus attaches to a cell with its fibers. The penton base protein interacts with the host cell integrins, and the penton is internalized by the host cell through receptor-mediated endocytosis. The penton is disassembled as it is transported to the nucleus, where the viral particle releases its DNA. The viral DNA takes over as terminal protein attached to the end of the DNA strand initiates transcription. The early genes are responsible for making regulatory proteins, which alter the host proteins to prepare for DNA synthesis, activate other virus genes, and provide protection from the hosts immune system. Viral DNA replication now occurs. The late phase begins when the late genes are expressed during DNA replication. These genes produce proteins that are involved in virus particle assembly. The hosts cellular processes are shut down as transport of mRNA to ...

Author Summary Human cells possess multiple systems that render them resistant to viral infection. Recently, a transmembrane protein, tetherin, has been identified as an antiviral host factor in HIV-1-infected cells. Tetherin retains newly assembled virions at the plasma membrane and prevents viral release from the infected cells. However, the precise molecular mechanisms following the virion tethering remain largely unknown. In our current study, we have identified a RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase, BCA2, which co-localizes and interacts with tetherin in human cells. BCA2 was found to facilitate the internalization of HIV-1 particles captured by tetherin on the plasma membrane and to enhance the targeting of viral particles to the lysosomes. Conversely, the targeted depletion of endogenous BCA2 reduces the intracellular accumulation of viral particles. Additionally, the expression of a small viral protein Vpu, an antagonist of tetherin, counteracts the antiviral effects of BCA2. These results suggest

JWH 073 IC50 mostly in latently infected memory CD4+T cells in individuals on suppressive ART, and these cells represent a long-lasting source of resurgent computer virus upon the interruption of ART (Finzi et al. 1999). The long half-life of infected memory CD4+T cells is usually partly responsible for the lifelong persistence of HIV (Finzi et al. 1999; Siliciano et al. 2003). In addition to latently infected cells, persistence can also be JWH 073 IC50 attributed to ongoing low levels of viral replication in infected subjects on ART (Fletcher et al. 2014; Palmer et al. 2008). Cell-associated viral RNA can be detected in gut and lymph nodes, suggesting continuous viral production in these compartments during ART and these anatomical reservoirs may constitute viral sanctuaries (Yukl et al. 2010). As current anti-HIV drugs do not inhibit transcription from integrated viral genomes JWH 073 IC50 and do not prevent viral particle release from stable cellular reservoirs, novel classes of ...

Primate lentiviruses code for a conserved function that is necessary for the efficient production of viral particles and in vivo pathogenicity. For HIV-1 this i...

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During animal cell division, the final separation of daughter cells requires ESCRT-III (endosomal sorting complex required for transport III), the core membrane scission machinery. Carlton et al. (see the Perspective by Petronczki and Uhlmann) report that ESCRT-III modulates abscission timing through one of its subunits, CHMP4C. Depletion of CHMP4C results in faster resolution of the midbody, the cytoplasmic bridge that connects the daughter cells at the end of cytokinesis. This phenotype correlates with a differential spatiotemporal distribution of CHMP4C at the midbody. As CHMP4C is essential for activating the Aurora B-mediated abscission checkpoint, consequently, depletion of CHMP4C results in the accumulation of genetic damage. Thus, the ESCRT machinery protects the cell against genetic damage by coordinating its cytokinetic activity with the abscission checkpoint.. J. G. Carlton, A. Caballe, M. Agromayor, M. Kloc, J. Martin-Serrano, ESCRT-III governs the Aurora B-mediated abscission ...

A novel archaeal virus, denoted Sulfolobus ellipsoid virus 1 (SEV1), was isolated from an acidic hot spring in Costa Rica. The morphologically unique virion of SEV1 contains a protein capsid with 16 regularly spaced ...

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The Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) K3 viral gene product effectively down-regulates cell surface MHC Class I. K3 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that promotes K63-linked polyubiquitination of MHC Class I, providing the signal for clathrin mediated endocytosis. Endocytosis is followed by sorting into the intralumenal vesicles (ILVs) of multivesicular bodies (MVBs) and eventual delivery to lysosomes. The sorting of MHC Class I into MVBs requires many individual proteins of the four endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs). In HeLa cells expressing the KSHV K3 ubiquitin ligase, the effect of RNA interference-mediated depletion of individual proteins of the ESCRT-0 and ESCRT-I complexes and three ESCRT-III proteins showed that these are required to down-regulate MHC Class I. However, depletion of proteins of the ESCRT-II complex or of the ESCRT-III protein, VPS20/CHMP6, failed to prevent the loss of MHC Class I from the cell surface. Depletion of His domain ...

Nearly 1.7 billion people are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its ability to survive intracellularly is thought to be central to its success as a pathogen, but how it does this is poorly understood. Using a Drosophila model of infection, we identify three host cell activities, Rab7, CG8743, and the ESCRT machinery, that modulate the mycobacterial phagosome. In the absence of these factors the cell no longer restricts growth of the non-pathogen Mycobacterium smegmatis. Hence, we identify factors that represent unique vulnerabilities of the host cell, because manipulation of any one of them alone is sufficient to allow a nonpathogenic mycobacterial species to proliferate. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, in mammalian cells, the ESCRT machinery plays a conserved role in restricting bacterial growth. ...

Fine particles and colloids, attached to grain surfaces, are abundant in the earths subsurface. Under certain conditions these particles can be released from the matrix and transported with the mobile phase. One of the mechanisms for sudden particle release is a decrease in groundwater salt concentration below the critical salt concentration (CSC), where repulsion forces between fine particles and matrix surfaces exceed binding forces. Typically, CSCs are determined with column experiments, where salt solutions with specific concentrations are applied to the matrix of interest. In this study it was attempted to determine the CSC with batch experiments as well as columns. Two types of sediment were tested: (a) pure, mineralogically homogeneous silica sand; and (b) mineralogically heterogeneous sandy sediment, taken from the Hanford formation in southeast Washington. Stepwise decreasing concentrations of salt solution (NaNO₃) were applied until fine particles were released from the sediments ...

Virus Detection and Analysis Molecular Virology Core Laboratory provides services related to analysis of various steps of HIV replication in target cells and the effects of anti-HIV compounds and treatments. We can evaluate stages of reverse transcription, integration, transcription, and viral release, analyze cell-to-cell transmission, and isolate virus from primary infected cells.

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The C2H2, How to setup raid 0 in windows server 2008, and coiled-coil (CC) 2080 as well as the NPF motifs of Rabenosyn-5 were all dispensable for this interaction, but a region including amino acids 70-120 was essential for the binding of Rabensoyn-5 to Vps45 ( Fig. Thats not unlike E ndeavoranother servee I played again recently. Now if your hosting provider allows this, you dont have to go through the process of moving all your websites and domain to another host gaid registrar. We make it easy to include a highly reliable web hosting as part of your service and increase your revenue at the same time. The skys the limit. Depending on which type of european usenetserver address you sign up for, we offer differing numbers of free transfers. Studies from our laboratory using the HER2 over-expressing breast cancer cell line SKBR3 have demonstrated that hypoxia or reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced VPS4 dysregulation leads to the accumulation of the ESCRT machinery in exosomes, as well as an ...

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Bidirectional virus secretion and nonciliated cell tropism following Andes virus infection of primary airway epithelial cell cultures. AU - Rowe, Regina K.. AU - Pekosz, Andrew. N1 - Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.. PY - 2006/2. Y1 - 2006/2. N2 - Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an acute disease resulting from infection with any one of a number of New World hantaviruses. HPS has a mortality rate of 40% and, unlike many other severe respiratory diseases, often occurs in young, healthy adults. Infection is usually initiated after inhalation of rodent excreta containing virus particles, but human-to-human transmission has been documented. Postmortem tissue samples show high levels of viral antigen within the respiratory endothelium, but it is not clear how the virus can traverse the respiratory epithelium in order to initiate infection in the microvasculature. We have utilized Andes virus infection of primary, differentiated airway epithelial ...

Gag polyprotein plays a role in budding and is processed by the viral protease during virion maturation outside the cell. During budding, it recruits, in a PPXY-dependent or independent manner, Nedd4-like ubiquitin ligases that conjugate ubiquitin molecules to Gag, or to Gag binding host factors. Interaction with HECT ubiquitin ligases probably link the viral protein to the host ESCRT pathway and facilitate release (By similarity).

Research in the Hanson laboratory focuses on fundamental unknowns of intracellular membrane organization and trafficking, with a special interest in roles played by ATPases of the AAA+ family of protein remodeling enzymes. We use a range of cell biological and biochemical tools to study pathways and processes controlled by these membrane-regulatory AAA+ ATPases and to learn how changes in these pathways contribute to pathogenesis. Current projects focus on two major problems. The first is to understand how the ESCRT machinery and its AAA+ ATPase VPS4 create vesicles inside late endosomes (a.k.a. multivesicular bodies). The second is to define the role of lumenal AAA+ proteins related to torsinA in controlling endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and nuclear envelope (NE) structure and function. Both projects are advancing understanding of key cellular pathways while providing insight into diseases ranging from cancer to dystonia.. ...

Applicants can follow steps given below to get Vizag Steel Plant Exam cu toff for SC ST OBC General 2016 from msreportserver_configurationsetting official website of Vizag Steel Plant. VPS Hosting provides a more cost-effective and scalable option for growing businesses when compared to Dedicated Server Hosting. As such they are involved in virus budding, transcriptional control, cell make web hosting freebsd progression, mRNA localization and apoptosis 313242 - 48 Therefore, it is possible that the observed genetic differences of the ESCRT-II components may be caused by distinct requirements in addition to and independently of endosomal function and possibly independently of the ESCRT-II complex and the remaining ESCRT machinery. In Figure 2B, there is a lot of green, so under the null hypothesis that Vps23 localizes nowhere in particular (say its cytosolic), of course the authors would have been able to find two cells in which red Snf7 localized in a subset of places where green Vps23 was ...

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For the treatment of influenza virus infections, neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) that prevent the release of virus particles have been effective against most influenza strains. Several neuraminidase (NA) assays are available for the evaluation of NAIs. To understand the NAI functions under physiological conditions, assays mimicking viral particle release should be useful. We have constructed retrovirus-based reporter viruses that are pseudotyped with hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein by transfection of producer cells using plasmids expressing retroviral gag-pol, influenza HA, NA, and firefly luciferase genes. Similarly to the life cycle of influenza viruses, the release of pseudotype viruses also requires neuraminidase functions. This requirement was used to develop an assay to evaluate NAI activities by measuring inhibition of pseudotype virus production at different NAI concentrations. The pseudotype virus release assay was used to determine the IC(50) values of Oseltamivir carboxylate, ...

Two lines of evidence in our current study suggest that surface TEMs can serve as exit gateways for HIV-1. First, most cell surface punctae where either Gag or Env clusters in both HeLa cell and in Jurkat T lymphocytes are also occupied by one of the tetraspanins (Figs. 6-8⇑⇑ and 10). Second, cellular TSG101 and VPS28, the components of the cellular budding machinery responsible for viral egress (Morita and Sundquist, 2004), when recruited to the plasma membrane in cells producing HIV-1, accumulate at CD63-containing TEMs (Fig. 8). Furthermore, we find that distortion of TEM distribution in virus-producing cells by an anti-CD9 antibody (K41) correlates with inhibition of HIV-1 release (unpublished data).. In a study where we used the FlAsH technique for successive dual-color labeling (Gaietta et al., 2002) of Gag in various virus-secreting cell types, we observed localization of newly synthesized Gag at distinct areas on the plasma membrane (Rudner et al., 2005). We also documented that ...

Exosome biogenesis and secretion. Exosomes initially form as intraluminal vesicles (ILVs), which are generated by inward budding of the limiting membrane during endosome maturation into multivesicular bodies (MVBs) in the endocytic pathway (30). The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III) and the associated ATPase Vps4 complex play important roles in this process. However, after depletion of key subunits of all four ESCRTs, ESCRT-independent ILV biogenesis still exists in mammalian cells. MVBs can fuse either with lysosomes for intracellular degradation or with the plasma membrane, resulting in release of ILVs into the extracellular space as exosomes (27).. Exosome biogenesis and/or release is affected by various molecules, including the ESCRT machinery components, Rab GTPases acting on vesicular traffic, membrane-spanning tetraspanins, and the intracellular adaptor syntenin (31). Features of cellular metabolic status such as ceramide metabolism, ER stress, ...

Exosome biogenesis and secretion. Exosomes initially form as intraluminal vesicles (ILVs), which are generated by inward budding of the limiting membrane during endosome maturation into multivesicular bodies (MVBs) in the endocytic pathway (30). The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III) and the associated ATPase Vps4 complex play important roles in this process. However, after depletion of key subunits of all four ESCRTs, ESCRT-independent ILV biogenesis still exists in mammalian cells. MVBs can fuse either with lysosomes for intracellular degradation or with the plasma membrane, resulting in release of ILVs into the extracellular space as exosomes (27).. Exosome biogenesis and/or release is affected by various molecules, including the ESCRT machinery components, Rab GTPases acting on vesicular traffic, membrane-spanning tetraspanins, and the intracellular adaptor syntenin (31). Features of cellular metabolic status such as ceramide metabolism, ER stress, ...

Exosome biogenesis and secretion. Exosomes initially form as intraluminal vesicles (ILVs), which are generated by inward budding of the limiting membrane during endosome maturation into multivesicular bodies (MVBs) in the endocytic pathway (30). The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III) and the associated ATPase Vps4 complex play important roles in this process. However, after depletion of key subunits of all four ESCRTs, ESCRT-independent ILV biogenesis still exists in mammalian cells. MVBs can fuse either with lysosomes for intracellular degradation or with the plasma membrane, resulting in release of ILVs into the extracellular space as exosomes (27).. Exosome biogenesis and/or release is affected by various molecules, including the ESCRT machinery components, Rab GTPases acting on vesicular traffic, membrane-spanning tetraspanins, and the intracellular adaptor syntenin (31). Features of cellular metabolic status such as ceramide metabolism, ER stress, ...

Plays an essential role in virion nuclear egress, the first step of virion release from infected cell. Within the host nucleus, NEC1 interacts with the newly formed capsid through the vertexes and directs it to the inner nuclear membrane by associating with NEC2. Induces the budding of the capsid at the inner nuclear membrane as well as its envelopment into the perinuclear space. There, the NEC1/NEC2 complex promotes the fusion of the enveloped capsid with the outer nuclear membrane and the subsequent release of the viral capsid into the cytoplasm where it will reach the secondary budding sites in the host Golgi or trans-Golgi network ...

Summary Cellular processes such as cytokinesis, the budding of enveloped retrovirus (e.g. HIV-1), and multivesicular biogenesis have direct links to several human diseases including carcinogenesis and neuro-degeration etc. While seemingly unrelated, these processes all involve membrane abscission for generating two newly formed membrane bound structures - a process aided by the cytosolic proteins collectively termed ESCRT-III. Understanding these processes for therapeutic intervention has so far focused on identification of the factors involved, their structures, and the interactions between them. However, given that membrane-abcission is the key event in all these processes, the mechanics of membrane scission cannot be neglected. Due to fast and highly localised transformations, protein mediated membrane remodelling in general has proven difficult for quantitative mechanistic scrutiny (perhaps with the single exception of dynamin which, unlike the ESCRT-III, acts from the outside of a membrane ...

Endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) are heteromeric protein complexes required for multivesicular body (MVB) morphogenesis. ESCRTs I, II, III and III-associated are ubiquitous in eukaryotes and presumably ancient in origin. ESCRT 0 recruits cargo to the MVB and appears to be …

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Bone marrow stromal antigen 2 (BST-2/tetherin) is a cellular membrane protein that inhibits the release of HIV-1. We show for the first time, using infectious ...

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