Cell–cell fusion induced by reovirus FAST proteins enhances replication and pathogenicity of non-enveloped dsRNA viruses

• Yuta Kanai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Takahiro Kawagishi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yusuke Sakai,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0531-8256

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• Ryotaro Nouda,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Masayuki Shimojima,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masayuki Saijo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5458-7298

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• Yoshiharu Matsuura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Takeshi Kobayashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tkobayashi@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5532-207X

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