Viral pores are everywhere

Manish Kumar; Nihal Altan-Bonnet

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.025

Viral pores are everywhere

Mol Cell. 2021 May 20;81(10):2061-2063. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.025.

Authors

Manish Kumar¹, Nihal Altan-Bonnet²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34019787
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.04.025

Abstract

Jones et al. (2021) and Zhang et al. (2021) reveal by cryo-EM the oligomeric crown-like structure formed by a membrane-associated Chikungunya virus replication protein that gates the export of newly synthesized viral RNA from viral replication organelles.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Comment

MeSH terms

Chikungunya virus* / genetics
Organelles
RNA, Viral / genetics
Virus Replication*

Substances

RNA, Viral