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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

How endosomal PIKfyve inhibition prevents viral membrane fusion and entry.

Nicholas Chow, Gustavo Scanavachi, Anand Saminathan, Tom Kirchhausen

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicholas ChowProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6259-1844
Gustavo ScanavachiProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4001-3389
Anand SaminathanProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9225-5558
Tom KirchhausenProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0559-893X

Funding

VISUALIZATION OF SUBCELLULAR DYNAMICS IN MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMSR35GM130386 · NIGMS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI TOMAS KIRCHHAUSEN · 2019 to 2026
$4.0M
Mechanism and Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 EntryR01AI163019 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KIRCHHAUSEN, TOMAS, WHELAN, SEAN PJ · 2021 to 2025
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI163019NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enveloped viruses enter cells by membrane fusion. The viral membrane fuses with a host membrane, either at the cell surface or within endocytic compartments. For endocytic entry, fusion is typically triggered by low pH and often requires proteolytic priming by compartment-specific host proteases, which together define the site and mechanism of fusion and shape viral tropism. Inhibition of the lipid kinase PIKfyve, which generates PI(5)P and PI(3,5)P

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Endosomal FusionLattice Light-Sheet MicroscopyMembrane TensionPIKfyve InhibitionViral Entry

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PMID41394603
PMCPMC12697719

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