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EMERGING MICROBES & INFECTIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2022.2164742
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Antiviral factors; furin; viral glycoprotein; cleavage; SARS-CoV-2
Viral envelope glycoproteins play a crucial role in viral infections. Host cells have developed counteracting mechanisms to suppress viral replication by targeting their envelope glycoproteins. Some host antiviral proteins have been found to inhibit furin cleavage of viral envelope glycoproteins, impairing viral infectivity. This review summarizes these host antiviral factors and their roles in reducing furin cleavage, providing insights for future antiviral studies.
Viral envelope glycoproteins are crucial for viral infections. In the process of enveloped viruses budding and release from the producer cells, viral envelope glycoproteins are presented on the viral membrane surface as spikes, promoting the virus's next-round infection of target cells. However, the host cells evolve counteracting mechanisms in the long-term virus-host co-evolutionary processes. For instance, the host cell antiviral factors could potently suppress viral replication by targeting their envelope glycoproteins through multiple channels, including their intracellular synthesis, glycosylation modification, assembly into virions, and binding to target cell receptors. Recently, a group of studies discovered that some host antiviral proteins specifically recognized host proprotein convertase (PC) furin and blocked its cleavage of viral envelope glycoproteins, thus impairing viral infectivity. Here, in this review, we briefly summarize several such host antiviral factors and analyze their roles in reducing furin cleavage of viral envelope glycoproteins, aiming at providing insights for future antiviral studies.
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