Influenza virus exploits tunneling nanotubes for cell-to-cell spread

Influenza virus exploits tunneling nanotubes for cell-to-cell spread

Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) represent a novel route of intercellular communication. While previous work has shown that TNTs facilitate the exchange of viral or prion proteins from infected to naïve cells, it is not clear whether the viral genome is also transferred via this mechanism and further, wh...

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Main Authors: Kumar, Amrita (Author), Kim, Jin Hyang (Author), Ranjan, Priya (Author), Metcalfe, Maureen G. (Author), Cao, Weiping (Author), Mishina, Margarita (Author), Gangappa, Shivaprakash (Author), Guo, Zhu (Author), Zaki, Sherif (Author), York, Ian (Author), García-Sastre, Adolfo (Author), Sambhara, Suryaprakash (Author), Boyden, Edward (Contributor), Shaw, Michael (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-20T17:01:01Z.
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