Robert-William Welke, Hannah Sabeth Sperber, Ronny Bergmann, Amit Koikkarah, Laura Menke, Christian Sieben, Detlev H Krüger, Salvatore Chiantia, Andreas Herrmann, Roland Schwarzer
Hantaviruses are enveloped viruses that possess a tri-segmented, negative-sense RNA genome. The viral S-segment encodes the multifunctional nucleocapsid protein (N), which is involved in genome packaging, intracellular protein transport, immunoregulation, and several other crucial processes during hantavirus infection. In this study, we generated fluorescently tagged N protein constructs derived from Puumalavirus (PUUV), the dominant hantavirus species in Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe. We comprehensively characterized this protein in the rodent cell line CHO-K1, monitoring the dynamics of N protein complex formation and investigating co-localization with host proteins as well as the viral glycoproteins Gc and Gn...
February 23, 2022: Viruses