Cellular entry and uncoating of naked and quasi-enveloped human hepatoviruses

  1. Efraín E Rivera-Serrano
  2. Olga González-López
  3. Anshuman Das
  4. Stanley M Lemon  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Abstract

Many 'non-enveloped' viruses, including hepatitis A virus (HAV), are released non-lytically from infected cells as infectious, quasi-enveloped virions cloaked in host membranes. Quasi-enveloped HAV (eHAV) mediates stealthy cell-to-cell spread within the liver, whereas stable naked virions shed in feces are optimized for environmental transmission. eHAV lacks virus-encoded surface proteins, and how it enters cells is unknown. We show both virion types enter by clathrin- and dynamin-dependent endocytosis, facilitated by integrin β1, and traffic through early and late endosomes. Uncoating of naked virions occurs in late endosomes, whereas eHAV undergoes ALIX-dependent trafficking to lysosomes where the quasi-envelope is enzymatically degraded and uncoating ensues coincident with breaching of endolysosomal membranes. Neither virion requires PLA2G16, a phospholipase essential for entry of other picornaviruses. Thus naked and quasi-enveloped virions enter via similar endocytic pathways, but uncoat in different compartments and release their genomes to the cytosol in a manner mechanistically distinct from other Picornaviridae.

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  1. Efraín E Rivera-Serrano

    Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  2. Olga González-López

    Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  3. Anshuman Das

    Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  4. Stanley M Lemon

    Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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    smlemon@med.unc.edu
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Funding

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AI103083)

  • Stanley M Lemon

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AI131685)

  • Stanley M Lemon

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (T32-AI007151)

  • Efraín E Rivera-Serrano

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2019, Rivera-Serrano et al.

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  1. Efraín E Rivera-Serrano
  2. Olga González-López
  3. Anshuman Das
  4. Stanley M Lemon
(2019)
Cellular entry and uncoating of naked and quasi-enveloped human hepatoviruses
eLife 8:e43983.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43983

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