Endocytic Pathways Used by Andes Virus to Enter Primary Human Lung Endothelial Cells

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• Alternative Title:
  PLoS One
• Personal Author:
  Chiang, Cheng-Feng ; Flint, Mike ; Lin, Jin-Mann S. ; Spiropoulou, Christina F.
• Description:
  Andes virus (ANDV) is the major cause of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in South America. Despite a high fatality rate (up to 40%), no vaccines or antiviral therapies are approved to treat ANDV infection. To understand the role of endocytic pathways in ANDV infection, we used 3 complementary approaches to identify cellular factors required for ANDV entry into human lung microvascular endothelial cells. We screened an siRNA library targeting 140 genes involved in membrane trafficking, and identified 55 genes required for ANDV infection. These genes control the major endocytic pathways, endosomal transport, cell signaling, and cytoskeleton rearrangement. We then used infectious ANDV and retroviral pseudovirions to further characterize the possible involvement of 9 of these genes in the early steps of ANDV entry. In addition, we used markers of cellular endocytosis along with chemical inhibitors of known endocytic pathways to show that ANDV uses multiple routes of entry to infect target cells. These entry mechanisms are mainly clathrin-, dynamin-, and cholesterol-dependent, but can also occur via a clathrin-independent manner.
• Subjects:
  Cell Line Cholesterol Clathrin Dynamins Endocytosis Endothelial Cells Hantavirus Humans Lung Membrane Transport Proteins Signal Transduction Virus Internalization

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• Source:
  PLoS One. 11(10).
• Pubmed ID:
  27780263
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5079659
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:32e59eef983552674bf0a0d18d57cc22fb23e92d9398534200e952ed8fb879fd
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42981/cdc_42981_DS1.pdf
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