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Selective EMC subunits act as molecular tethers of intracellular organelles exploited during viral entry

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  • Parikshit Bagchi

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

  • Mauricio Torres

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

  • Ling Qi

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

  • Billy Tsai

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

Abstract

Although viruses must navigate the complex host endomembrane system to infect cells, the strategies used to achieve this is unclear. During entry, polyomavirus SV40 is sorted from the late endosome (LE) to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to cause infection, yet how this is accomplished remains enigmatic. Here we find that EMC4 and EMC7, two ER membrane protein complex (EMC) subunits, support SV40 infection by promoting LE-to-ER targeting of the virus. They do this by engaging LE-associated Rab7, presumably to stabilize contact between the LE and ER. These EMC subunits also bind to the ER-resident fusion machinery component syntaxin18, which is required for SV40-arrival to the ER. Our data suggest that EMC4 and EMC7 act as molecular tethers, inter-connecting two intracellular compartments to enable efficient transport of a virus between these compartments. As LE-to-ER transport of cellular cargos is unclear, our results have broad implications for illuminating inter-organelle cargo transport.

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  • Parikshit Bagchi & Mauricio Torres & Ling Qi & Billy Tsai, 2020. "Selective EMC subunits act as molecular tethers of intracellular organelles exploited during viral entry," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-14967-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14967-w
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