Vesicular egress of non-enveloped lytic parvoviruses depends on gelsolin functioning.

The autonomous parvovirus Minute Virus of Mice (MVM) induces specific changes in the cytoskeleton filaments of infected permissive cells, causing in particular the degradation of actin fibers and the generation of "actin patches." This is attributed to a virus-induced imbalance between the...

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Main Authors: Séverine Bär, Laurent Daeffler, Jean Rommelaere, Jürg P F Nüesch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2494870?pdf=render