title: Interaction of parvoviruses with the nuclear envelope.
abstract: Parvoviruses are serious pathogens but also serve as platforms for gene therapy or for using their lytic activity in experimental cancer treatment. Despite of their growing importance during the last decade little is known on how the viral genome is transported into the nucleus of the infected cell, which is crucial for replication. As nucleic acids are not karyophilic per se nuclear import must be driven by proteins attached to the viral genome. In turn, presence and conformation of these proteins depend upon the entry pathway of the virus into the cell. This review focuses on the trafficking of the parvoviral genome from the cellular periphery to nucleus. Despite of the uncertainties in knowledge about the entry pathway we show that parvoviruses developed a unique strategy to pass the nuclear envelope by hijacking enzymes involved in mitosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Biology (Molecular Virology), University of Tsukuba, Japan; Human Biology Program, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenza
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Snoussi
authors.affiliation: Univ. de Bordeaux, Microbiologie fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France; CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: michael.kann@u-bordeaux2.fr.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D006801:Humans; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000201:enzymology / Q000821:virology*; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000201:enzymology / Q000821:virology*; D017992:Parvovirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins