Cellular Factors Implicated in Filovirus Entry

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العنوان: Cellular Factors Implicated in Filovirus Entry
المؤلفون: Bhattacharyya, Suchita, Hope, Thomas J.
المصدر: Advances in Virology.
بيانات النشر: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Article Subject
الوصف: Although filoviral infections are still occurring in different parts of the world, there are no effective preventive or treatment strategies currently available against them. Not only do filoviruses cause a deadly infection, but they also have the potential of being used as biological weapons. This makes it imperative to comprehensively study these viruses in order to devise effective strategies to prevent the occurrence of these infections. Entry is the foremost step in the filoviral replication cycle and different studies have reported the involvement of a myriad of cellular factors including plasma membrane components, cytoskeletal proteins, endosomal components, and cytosolic factors in this process. Signaling molecules such as the TAM family of receptor tyrosine kinases comprising of Tyro3, Axl, and Mer have also been implicated as putative entry factors. Additionally, filoviruses are suggested to bind to a common receptor and recent studies have proposed T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 1 (TIM-1) and Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) as potential receptor candidates. This paper summarizes the existing literature on filoviral entry with a special focus on cellular factors involved in this process and also highlights some fundamental questions. Future research aimed at answering these questions could be very useful in designing novel antiviral therapeutics.
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اللغة: English
تدمد: 1687-8639
DOI: 10.1155/2013/487585
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=hindawi_publ::55a949a41d938ff3ab89622d8eab6aa9
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.hindawi.publ..55a949a41d938ff3ab89622d8eab6aa9
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:16878639
DOI:10.1155/2013/487585