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CURRENT OPINION IN VIROLOGY
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 20-26Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.02.009
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [BIO2012-33314]
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Many viruses build specialized structures known as viral factories, a protected environment in which viral genome replication and morphogenesis take place. Recent findings show that viruses manipulate lipid flows to assemble these replication platforms. Viruses are thus able to create new membranes by interfering with lipid metabolism, targeting and transport; they make use of specific lipid transfer proteins (LTP) at membrane contact sites, and frequently recruit endoplasmic reticulum (ER), ER export sites, and mitochondria. Some factories, such as those built by plant and certain animal viruses, are motile membranous structures involved in intracellular or intercellular transport of the replicated viral genome. The identification of lipids and LTP subverted by viruses might lead to better understand and fight viral infections.
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