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Adenovirus Entry: From Infection to Immunity.
Journal article

Adenovirus Entry: From Infection to Immunity.

  • Greber UF Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; email: urs.greber@imls.uzh.ch.
  • Flatt JW Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, 00790 Helsinki, Finland; email: justin.flatt@helsinki.fi.
  • 2019-07-09
Published in:
  • Annual review of virology. - 2019
antigen-presenting cells
gene therapy
mechanics
trafficking
virus entry and uncoating
Adenoviridae
Adenoviridae Infections
Animals
Antigen-Presenting Cells
Dendritic Cells
Epithelial Cells
Humans
Macrophages
Mice
Virion
Virus Internalization
Virus Replication
English More than 80 different adenovirus (AdV) types infect humans through the respiratory, ocular, or gastrointestinal tracts. They cause acute clinical mani-festations or persist under humoral and cell-based immunity. Immuno-suppressed individuals are at risk of death from an AdV infection. Concepts about cell entry of AdV build on strong foundations from molecular and cellular biology-and increasingly physical virology. Here, we discuss how virions enter and deliver their genome into the nucleus of epithelial cells. This process breaks open the virion at distinct sites because the particle has nonisometric mechanical strength and reacts to specific host factors along the entry pathway. We further describe how macrophages and dendritic cells resist AdV infection yet enhance productive entry into polarized epithelial cells. A deep understanding of the viral mechanisms and cell biological and biophysical principles will continue to unravel how epithelial and antigen-presenting cells respond to AdVs and control inflammation and persistence in pathology and therapy.
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  • English
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https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/103139
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