title: Comparative analysis of Ebola virus glycoprotein interactions with human and bat cells.
abstract: Infection with Ebola virus (EBOV) causes hemorrhagic fever in humans with high case-fatality rates. The EBOV-glycoprotein (EBOV-GP) facilitates viral entry and promotes viral release from human cells. African fruit bats are believed not to develop disease upon EBOV infection and have been proposed as a natural reservoir of EBOV. We compared EBOV-GP interactions with human cells and cells from African fruit bats. We found that susceptibility to EBOV-GP-dependent infection was not limited to bat cells from potential reservoir species, and we observed that GP displayed similar biological properties in human and bat cells. The only exception was GP localization, which was to a greater extent intracellular in bat cells as compared to human cells. Collectively, our results suggest that GP interactions with fruit bat and human cells are similar and do not limit EBOV tropism for certain bat species.
authors: Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors: Annika
authors: A
authors: Kühl
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Hoffmann
authors: Marcel A
authors: MA
authors: Müller
authors: Vincent J
authors: VJ
authors: Munster
authors: Kerstin
authors: K
authors: Gnirss
authors: Miriam
authors: M
authors: Kiene
authors: Theodros Solomon
authors: TS
authors: Tsegaye
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Behrens
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Herrler
authors: Heinz
authors: H
authors: Feldmann
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Drosten
authors: Stefan
authors: S
authors: Pöhlmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002685:Chiroptera; D006224:Cricetinae; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D029043:Ebolavirus / Q000378:metabolism*; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral / Q000502:physiology; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D013045:Species Specificity; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D014764:Viral Proteins