Effects of Ebola virus glycoproteins on endothelial cell activation and barrier function

VM Wahl-Jensen, TA Afanasieva, J Seebach… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in humans and
nonhuman primates. Vascular instability and dysregulation are disease-decisive symptoms …

Identification of the Ebola virus glycoprotein as the main viral determinant of vascular cell cytotoxicity and injury

Z Yang, HJ Duckers, NJ Sullivan, A Sanchez… - Nature medicine, 2000 - nature.com
Here we defined the main viral determinant of Ebola virus pathogenicity; synthesis of the
virion glycoprotein (GP) of Ebola virus Zaire induced cytotoxic effects in human endothelial …

Shed GP of Ebola virus triggers immune activation and increased vascular permeability

B Escudero-Pérez, VA Volchkova, O Dolnik… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
During Ebola virus (EBOV) infection a significant amount of surface glycoprotein GP is shed
from infected cells in a soluble form due to cleavage by cellular metalloprotease TACE …

Downregulation of β1 integrins by Ebola virus glycoprotein: implication for virus entry

A Takada, S Watanabe, H Ito, K Okazaki, H Kida… - Virology, 2000 - Elsevier
Filoviruses, including Ebola virus, are cytotoxic. To investigate the role of the Ebola virus
glycoprotein (GP) in this cytopathic effect, we transiently expressed the GP in human kidney …

Role of Ebola virus secreted glycoproteins and virus-like particles in activation of human macrophages

V Wahl-Jensen, SK Kurz, PR Hazelton… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ebola virus, a member of the family Filoviridae, causes one of the most severe forms of viral
hemorrhagic fever. In the terminal stages of disease, symptoms progress to hypotension …

Ebola virus glycoproteins induce global surface protein down-modulation and loss of cell adherence

G Simmons, RJ Wool-Lewis, F Baribaud… - Journal of …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Ebola virus envelope glycoprotein (GP) derived from the pathogenic Zaire subtype
mediates cell rounding and detachment from the extracellular matrix in 293T cells. In this …

Ebola virus glycoprotein GP is not cytotoxic when expressed constitutively at a moderate level

N Alazard-Dany, V Volchkova… - Journal of general …, 2006 - microbiologyresearch.org
Transient expression of Ebola virus (EBOV) glycoprotein GP causes downregulation of
surface proteins, cell rounding and detachment, a phenomenon believed to play a central …

Ebola virion attachment and entry into human macrophages profoundly effects early cellular gene expression

V Wahl-Jensen, S Kurz, F Feldmann… - PLoS neglected …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) infections are associated with high lethality in primates. ZEBOV
primarily targets mononuclear phagocytes, which are activated upon infection and secrete …

Structure‐function analysis of the soluble glycoprotein, sGP, of ebola virus

D Falzarano, O Krokhin, V Wahl‐Jensen… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to the transmembrane protein, GP1, 2, the Ebola virus glycoprotein gene
encodes the soluble glycoproteins sGP and Δ‐peptide. Two more soluble proteins, GP1 and …

Inhibition of Ebola virus glycoprotein-mediated cytotoxicity by targeting its transmembrane domain and cholesterol

M Hacke, P Björkholm, A Hellwig, P Himmels… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The high pathogenicity of the Ebola virus reflects multiple concurrent processes on infection.
Among other important determinants, Ebola fusogenic glycoprotein (GP) has been …