Cell-cell fusion between eukaryotic cells is a general process involved in many
physiological and pathological conditions, including infections by bacteria, parasites, and …

Publisher Summary In analyzing the many and complex variables that affect the interaction
between viruses and cells, present efforts can perhaps at best provide only model systems …

Since their discovery, viruses have been associated with disease. Viruses must hijack a
cell's replication machinery to propagate, leading to a myriad of woes for the unfortunate …

Viruses are intracellular parasites that hijack the cellular machinery for their own replication.
Therefore, an obligatory step in the virus life cycle is the delivery of the viral genome inside …

In biomembrane fusion pathways, membranes are destabilized through insertions of
amphipathic protein segments, lipid reorganization via hemifusion, protein restructuring, and …

Enveloped animal viruses fuse their membrane with a host cell membrane, thus delivering
the virus genetic material into the cytoplasm and initiating infection. This critical membrane …

Enveloped viruses infect host cells by a membrane fusion reaction that takes place at the
cell surface or in intracellular compartments following virus uptake. Fusion is mediated by …

Initiation of host cell infection by an enveloped virus requires a viral-to-host cell membrane
fusion event. This event is mediated by at least one viral transmembrane glycoprotein …

Viral Fusion Mechanisms presents the first comprehensive review on this exciting topic. The
book focuses on molecular mechanisms rather than phenomonology and examines a wide …

Every enveloped virus fuses its membrane with a host cell membrane, thereby releasing its
genome into the cytoplasm and initiating the viral replication cycle. In each case, one or a …