Exploiting the kinesin-1 molecular motor to generate a virus membrane penetration site

How non-enveloped viruses cross host membranes is incompletely understood. Here, Ravindranet al. show that polyomavirus SV40 recruits kinesin-1 to construct a penetration site on the ER membrane.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Madhu Sudhan Ravindran, Martin F. Engelke, Kristen J. Verhey, Billy Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15496

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