Naringenin, widely distributed in fruits and vegetables, is endowed with antiviral other health beneficial activities, such as immune-stimulating anti-inflammatory actions that could play a role contributing, to some extent, either preventing or alleviating coronavirus infection. Several computational studies have identified naringenin one of the prominent flavonoids can possibly inhibit intern...

Lentiviruses are nononcogenic retroviruses that cause persistent infections and slowly progressive diseases. Visna virus, a lentivirus of sheep, persists in cells of the macrophage lineage despite the presence of neutralizing antibodies in the animal. These antibodies are measured by prevention of virus replication in sheep fibroblast cell cultures. In this study we have compared the antiviral ...

Despite intensive efforts, no safe and effective vaccine has been developed for the prophylaxis of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Studies with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)/macaque model demonstrated that live attenuated viruses are the most effective vaccines tested thus far. However, due to ongoing low-level replication of the attenuated ...

When synchronized chicken embryo cells were infected with Rous sarcoma virus in the the G-I period of the cell cycle, virus replication was delayed by several hours compared with cells infected in the S period, and virus release began only after mitosis. The delay in replication was not due to a change in the rate of virus adsorption and penetration. There was no delay in replication of Newcast...

Replication of many RNA viruses is accompanied by extensive remodeling of intracellular membranes. In poliovirus-infected cells, ER and Golgi stacks disappear, while new clusters of vesicle-like structures form sites for viral RNA synthesis. Virus replication is inhibited by brefeldin A (BFA), implicating some components(s) of the cellular secretory pathway in virus growth. Formation of charact...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients with high serum levels of bile acids (BAs) respond poorly to IFN therapy. BAs have been shown to increase RNA-replication of genotype 1 but not genotype 2a replicons. Since BAs modulate lipid metabolism including lipoprotein secretion and as HCV depends on lipids and lipoproteins during RNA-replication, virus production and cell entry, BAs may affect ...

The gammaherpesvirus immediate-early genes are critical regulators of virus replication and reactivation from latency. Rta, encoded by gene 50, serves as the major transactivator of the lytic program and is highly conserved among all the gammaherpesviruses, including Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, and murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (gammaHV68). Introduction of a transl...

The cellular DEAD-box protein DDX3 was recently shown to be essential for hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. Prior to that, we had reported that HCV core binds to DDX3 in yeast-two hybrid and transient transfection assays. Here, we confirm by co-immunoprecipitation that this interaction occurs in cells replicating the JFH1 virus. Consistent with this result, immunofluorescence staining of inf...