Dengue Virus Ensures Its Fusion in Late Endosomes Using Compartment-Specific Lipids

Elena Zaitseva; Sung-Tae Yang; Kamran Melikov; Sergei Pourmal; Leonid V. Chernomordik

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1001131

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Dengue Virus Ensures Its Fusion in Late Endosomes Using Compartment-Specific Lipids

Elena Zaitseva ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zaitseva, Sung-Tae Yang

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Sung-Tae Yang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zaitseva, Sung-Tae Yang

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Kamran Melikov,

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Sergei Pourmal,

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Leonid V. Chernomordik

* E-mail: chernoml@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Dengue Virus Ensures Its Fusion in Late Endosomes Using Compartment-Specific Lipids

Elena Zaitseva,
Sung-Tae Yang,
Kamran Melikov,
Sergei Pourmal,
Leonid V. Chernomordik

Published: October 7, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001131

About the Authors

Elena Zaitseva

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zaitseva, Sung-Tae Yang

Affiliation Section on Membrane Biology, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sung-Tae Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zaitseva, Sung-Tae Yang

Kamran Melikov

Sergei Pourmal

Leonid V. Chernomordik

* E-mail: chernoml@mail.nih.gov

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ STY KM LVC. Performed the experiments: EZ STY SP. Analyzed the data: EZ STY KM SP LVC. Wrote the paper: EZ KM LVC.

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