[HTML][HTML] Cryo-electron tomography: the resolution revolution and a surge of in situ virological discoveries

Y Hong, Y Song, Z Zhang, S Li - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The recent proliferation of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) techniques has led to the cryo-
ET resolution revolution. Meanwhile, significant efforts have been made to improve the …

A hitchhiker's guide through the cell: the world according to the capsids of alphaherpesviruses

K Döhner, MC Serrero, A Viejo-Borbolla… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The nucleoplasm, the cytosol, the inside of virions, and again the cytosol comprise the world
in which the capsids of alphaherpesviruses encounter viral and host proteins that support or …

A cryo-ET survey of microtubules and intracellular compartments in mammalian axons

HE Foster, C Ventura Santos, AP Carter - Journal of Cell Biology, 2021 - rupress.org
The neuronal axon is packed with cytoskeletal filaments, membranes, and organelles, many
of which move between the cell body and axon tip. Here, we used cryo-electron tomography …

The role of nuclear pores and importins for herpes simplex virus infection

K Döhner, MC Serrero, B Sodeik - Current opinion in virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Dynein and kinesin-1.•Importin α, importin β, nuclear pores, and
nucleoporins.•BoHV-1, HSV-1, PrV, and VZV.Microtubule transport and nuclear import are …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments

X Huang, I Torre, M Chiappi, Z Yin, A Vydyanath… - Journal of Muscle …, 2023 - Springer
Myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) is an accessory protein of the thick filament in vertebrate
cardiac muscle arranged over 9 stripes of intervals of 430 Å in each half of the A-band in the …

[HTML][HTML] A frame-by-frame glance at membrane fusion mechanisms: From viral infections to fertilization

FC Azimi, TT Dean, K Minari, LGM Basso, TDR Vance… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Viral entry and fertilization are distinct biological processes that share a common
mechanism: membrane fusion. In viral entry, enveloped viruses attach to the host cell …

[HTML][HTML] The journey of herpesvirus capsids and genomes to the host cell nucleus

K Döhner, A Cornelius, MC Serrero, B Sodeik - Current Opinion in Virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Herpesvirus capsid stabilization, capsid portal vertices and portal caps.•Getting
dynein-mediated capsid transport on microtubule roads.•The enigma of translocating from …

[HTML][HTML] Near-native state imaging by cryo-soft-X-ray tomography reveals remodelling of multiple cellular organelles during HSV-1 infection

KL Nahas, V Connor, KM Scherer, CF Kaminski… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is a large, enveloped DNA virus and its assembly in the cell
is a complex multi-step process during which viral particles interact with numerous cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging techniques for detecting prokaryotic viruses in environmental samples

V Turzynski, I Monsees, C Moraru, AJ Probst - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth with an estimate of 1031 viral
particles across all ecosystems. Prokaryotic viruses—bacteriophages and archaeal viruses …

Three-dimensional insights into human enveloped viruses in vitro and in situ

N Vankadari, DC Shepherd, SD Carter… - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Viruses can be enveloped or non-enveloped, and require a host cell to replicate and
package their genomes into new virions to infect new cells. To accomplish this task, viruses …