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ArticleJournal of virology2012

Anti-tetherin activities of HIV-1 Vpu and Ebola virus glycoprotein do not involve removal of tetherin from lipid rafts.

Lisa A Lopez, Su Jung Yang, Colin M Exline, Srinivas Rengarajan, Kevin G Haworth, Paula M Cannon

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Article in Journal of virology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisa A LopezDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Su Jung Yang
Colin M Exline
Srinivas Rengarajan
Kevin G Haworth
Paula M Cannon
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Understanding how HIV-1 Vpu and HIV-2 Env stimulate virus releaseR01AI068546 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CANNON, PAULA M · 2006 to 2010
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS AI068546NIAID NIH HHS AI068546-S1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI068546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BST-2/tetherin is an interferon-inducible host restriction factor that blocks the release of newly formed enveloped viruses. It is enriched in lipid raft membrane microdomains, which are also the sites of assembly of several enveloped viruses. Viral anti-tetherin factors, such as the HIV-1 Vpu protein, typically act by removing tetherin from the cell surface. In contrast, the Ebola virus glycoprotein (GP) is unusual in that it blocks tetherin restriction without apparently altering its cell surface localization. We explored the possibility that GP acts to exclude tetherin from the specific sites of virus assembly without overtly removing it from the cell surface and that lipid raft exclusion is the mechanism involved. However, we found that neither GP nor Vpu had any effect on tetherin's distribution within lipid raft domains. Furthermore, GP did not prevent the colocalization of tetherin and budding viral particles. Contrary to previous reports, we also found no evidence that GP is itself a raft protein. Together, our data indicate that the exclusion of tetherin from lipid rafts is not the mechanism used by either HIV-1 Vpu or Ebola virus GP to counteract tetherin restriction.

Indexed as

Antigens, CDBone Marrow Stromal Antigen 2Cell LineEbolavirusGPI-Linked ProteinsHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHIV-1HIV InfectionsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus ProteinsHumansLipid BilayersMembrane MicrodomainsProtein BindingProtein TransportViral Envelope ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsAntigens, CDBone Marrow Stromal Antigen 2BST2 protein, humanenvelope glycoprotein, Ebola virusGPI-Linked ProteinsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus ProteinsLipid BilayersViral Envelope ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsViroporin Proteinsvpu protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1

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PMID22398279
PMCPMC3347301
OpenAlexW2063448249

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