Lec 12-Virus Entry Flashcards
Entry mechanisms of virus
All viruses have diff ones, they are selective
Do all viruses follow common steps in their replication cycle?
Yes
Steps of virus replication cycle
- Attachment—entry
- Penetration—entry
- Uncoating—entry
- Transcription
- Translation
- Genome replication—maturation
- Assembly—maturation
- Release—maturation
Can viruses diffuse across PM?
No, they need mechanisms to bypass it
How do we know where viruses can enter body?
Dictated by location in body of virus receptor. Where the virus is infecting determines the disease—there is a connection between virus tropism and the disease it causes
4 examples of variation in viral tropism
- Influenza—respiratory
- Zika—placenta and neurons
- Rabies—muscle and nervous sys
- HIV—blood cells
Where do attachment, penetration, and uncoating occur for bacteriophages?
Bacterial cell surface—virus touches down on surface, genome is injected into cell through helical tail
2 steps of bacteriophage entry
- Initial, reversible (skimming cell surface until it finds correct position) binding to bacterial cell surface via 6 long tail fibres
- Irreversible binding via short tail fibres which interact with receptors on bacterial cell surface
Steps of T4 bacteriophage binding to E. coli receptors
- Long tail fibres recognize outer membrane protein C or LPS of E. coli (reversible)
- After at least 3 long tail fibres have bound, conform change in baseplate occurs, and short tail fibres extend and bind to core region of host cell LPS (irrev)
- Contraction of tail sheath and penetration of outer memb
- T4 lysozyme degrades peptidoglycan layer
- Inner memb is degraded
- Phage DNA is delivered into cytoplasm
Locations of steps of viral infection of eukaryotic cells
- Attachment @ cell surface
- Penetration @ cell surface or internal memb
- Uncoating @ cytoplasm
Initial attachment of virus to eukaryotic cells
Reversible electrostatic interactions, stable attachment=irrev tight interactions w receptors
How do viruses penetrate eukaryotic hosts?
Membrane fusion at cell surface or receptor mediated endocytosis
What triggers virus release into cytoplasm
pH drop
Path for viral infection of eukaryotic cells: icosahedron
- Free virus
- Interacts with PM
- Endocytosis
- Endosome is formed
- pH drop of endosome as it matures
- pH drop triggers penetration thru endosome membrane
- Virus released into cytoplasm
Path for viral infection of eukaryotic cells: enveloped #1 (without endosome)
- Enveloped virus
- Attachment to cell surface
- Fusion of envelop with PM
- Release of envelop contents into cytoplasm
**called penetration
Path for viral infection of eukaryotic cells: enveloped #2 (with endosome)
- Enveloped virus
- Attaches to cell surface
- Endocytosis into endosome
- pH drop triggers release of virus by fusing with endosome membrane
- Virus released into cytoplasm
Are virus receptors diverse?
No
What are virus receptors made up out of?
Could be proteins, sugars, lipids
What receptor does influenza bind to?
Sialic acid (sugar)
What receptor does vesicular stomatitis bind to?
Negatively charged membrane lipids
What do viral receptors help determine?
Host range of virus. If cell doesn’t have a receptor for a virus, virus can’t penetrate, cell can’t get infected by it
What is a VAP?
Virus attachment protein