Importin-7-dependent nuclear translocation of the Flavivirus core protein is required for infectious virus production

• Yumi Itoh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yumi Itoh, Yoichi Miyamoto

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoichi Miyamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yumi Itoh, Yoichi Miyamoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Nuclear Transport Dynamics, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan, Laboratory of Biofunctional Molecular Medicine, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan

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• Makoto Tokunaga,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tatsuya Suzuki,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akira Takada,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Akinori Ninomiya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Central Instrumentation Laboratory, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tomomi Hishinuma,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mami Matsuda,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

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

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• Yoshihiro Yoneda,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Masahiro Oka,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Nuclear Transport Dynamics, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka, Japan

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• Ryosuke Suzuki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Yoshiharu Matsuura ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  * E-mail: matsuura@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp (YMatsuura); toruokamoto@juntendo.ac.jp (TO)

  Affiliations Laboratory of Virus Control, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Toru Okamoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matsuura@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp (YMatsuura); toruokamoto@juntendo.ac.jp (TO)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-3102

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