Aggresomes and pericentriolar sites of virus assembly. Cellular defense or viral design?

Wileman, Thomas E. (2007) Aggresomes and pericentriolar sites of virus assembly. Cellular defense or viral design? Annual Review of Microbiology, 61 (1). pp. 149-167. ISSN 1545-3251

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Abstract

Virus replication and virus assembly often occur in virus inclusions or virus factories that form at pericentriolar sites close to the microtubule organizing center or in specialized nuclear domains called ND10/PML bodies. Similar inclusions called aggresomes form in response to protein aggregation. Protein aggregates are toxic to cells and are transported along microtubules to aggresomes for immobilization and subsequent degradation by proteasomes and/or autophagy. The similarity between aggresomes and virus inclusions raises the possibility that viruses use aggresome pathways to concentrate cellular and viral proteins to facilitate replication and assembly. Alternatively, aggresomes may be part of an innate cellular response that recognizes virus components as foreign or misfolded and targets them for storage and degradation. Insights into the possible roles played by aggresomes during virus assembly are emerging from an understanding of how virus inclusions form and how viral proteins are targeted to them.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2010 11:11
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/13964
DOI:	10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090836

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