Chapter title |
Live-Cell Imaging of Filoviruses
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Chapter number | 15 |
Book title |
Ebolaviruses
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7116-9_15 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7115-2, 978-1-4939-7116-9
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Authors |
Gordian Schudt, Olga Dolnik, Stephan Becker |
Editors |
Thomas Hoenen, Allison Groseth |
Abstract |
Observation of molecular processes inside living cells is fundamental to a deeper understanding of virus-host interactions in filoviral-infected cells. These observations can provide spatiotemporal insights into protein synthesis, protein-protein interaction dynamics, and transport processes of these highly pathogenic viruses. Thus, live-cell imaging provides the possibility for antiviral screening in real time and gives mechanistic insights into understanding filovirus assembly steps that are dependent on cellular factors, which then represent potential targets against this highly fatal disease. Here we describe analysis of living filovirus-infected cells under maximum biosafety (i.e., BSL4) conditions using plasmid-driven expression of fluorescently labeled viral and cellular proteins and/or viral genome-encoded expression of fluorescently labeled proteins. Such multiple-color and multidimensional time-lapse live-cell imaging analyses are a powerful method to gain a better understanding of the filovirus infection cycle. |
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