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- Title
A Viral Pilot for HCMV Navigation?
- Authors
Adler, Barbara
- Abstract
gH/gL virion envelope glycoprotein complexes of herpesviruses serve as entry complexes and mediate viral cell tropism. By binding additional viral proteins, gH/gL forms multimeric complexes which bind to specific host cell receptors. Both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) express alternative multimeric gH/gL complexes. Relative amounts of these alternative complexes in the viral envelope determine which host cells are preferentially infected. Host cells of EBV can modulate the gH/gL complex complement of progeny viruses by cell type-dependent degradation of one of the associating proteins. Host cells of HCMV modulate the tropism of their virus progenies by releasing or not releasing virus populations with a specific gH/gL complex complement out of a heterogeneous pool of virions. The group of Jeremy Kamil has recently shown that the HCMV ER-resident protein UL148 controls integration of one of the HCMV gH/gL complexes into virions and thus creates a pool of virions which can be routed by different host cells. This first mechanistic insight into regulation of the gH/gL complex complement of HCMV progenies presents UL148 as a pilot candidate for HCMV navigation in its infected host.
- Subjects
HUMAN cytomegalovirus; GLYCOPROTEINS; HERPESVIRUSES; VIRAL tropism; EPSTEIN-Barr virus
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2015, Vol 7, Issue 7, p3857
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.3390/v7072801