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SUBMITTER: Turpin J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8038490 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Turpin Jonathan J El-Safadi Daed D Lebeau Grégorie G Frumence Etienne E Desprès Philippe P Viranaïcken Wildriss W Krejbich-Trotot Pascale P
International journal of molecular sciences 20210403 7
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus considered as a threat to human health due to large epidemics and serious clinical outcomes such as microcephaly in new-borns. Like all flaviviruses, ZIKV relies on the cellular machinery to complete its viral cycle, with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) being the critical site of viral replication factories. The sudden high protein load in the ER induces an ER stress to which the cell responds with an appropriate unfolded protein response ...[more]