title: Association of the caveola vesicular system with cellular entry by filoviruses.
abstract: The filoviruses Ebola Zaire virus and Marburg virus are believed to infect target cells through endocytic vesicles, but the details of this pathway are unknown. We used a pseudotyping strategy to investigate the cell biology of filovirus entry. We observed that specific inhibitors of the caveola system, including cholesterol-sequestering drugs and phorbol esters, inhibited the entry of filovirus pseudotypes into human cells. We also measured slower cell entry kinetics for both filovirus pseudotypes than for pseudotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which has been recognized to exploit the clathrin-mediated entry pathway. Finally, visualization by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy revealed that the filovirus pseudotypes colocalized with the caveola protein marker caveolin-1 but that VSV pseudotypes did not. Collectively, these results provide evidence suggesting that filoviruses use caveolae to gain entry into cells.
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California 94141-9100, USA.
authors.forename: Cyril J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Empig
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Goldsmith
mesh_terms: D021941:Caveolae / Q000821:virology*; D051242:Caveolin 1; D022461:Caveolins / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D016563:Filoviridae / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010703:Phorbol Esters / Q000494:pharmacology; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: C495540:CAV1 protein, human; D051242:Caveolin 1; D022461:Caveolins; D010703:Phorbol Esters