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SUBMITTER: Zhang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2629213 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Leiliang L Lee Stella Y SY Beznoussenko Galina V GV Peters Peter J PJ Yang Jia-Shu JS Gilbert Hui-ya HY Brass Abraham L AL Elledge Stephen J SJ Isaacs Stuart N SN Moss Bernard B Mironov Alexander A Hsu Victor W VW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081224 1
Members of the poxvirus family have been investigated for their applications as vaccines and expression vectors and, more recently, because of concern for their potential as biological weapons. Vaccinia virus, the prototypic member, evolves through multiple forms during its replication. Here, we show a surprising way by which vaccinia hijacks coatomer for early viral biogenesis. Whereas coatomer forms COPI vesicles in the host early secretory system, vaccinia formation bypasses this role of coat ...[more]