Open AccessInfluenza Exits the Cell without an ESCRT
Author(s) -
Heinrich G. Göttlinger
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.08.036
Subject(s) - biology , escrt , virology , genetics , cell , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , endosome
Many enveloped viruses depend on the membrane remodeling machinery of their host cells to complete their life cycle. In this issue, Rossman et al. (2010) now demonstrate that influenza virus possesses its own device for releasing nascent virus particles from the plasma membrane, the M2 proton-selective ion channel, which can substitute for the host cell's ESCRT pathway.
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