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Rotaviral enterotoxin nonstructural protein 4 targets mitochondria for activation of apoptosis during infection.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 12 Oct 2012
Bhowmick Rahul, Halder Umesh Chandra, Chattopadhyay Shiladitya, Chanda Shampa, Nandi Satabdi, Bagchi Parikshit, Nayak Mukti Kant, Chakrabarti Oishee, Kobayashi Nobumichi, Chawla-Sarkar Mamta
Abstract excerpt
Viruses have evolved to encode multifunctional proteins to control the intricate cellular signaling pathways by using very few viral proteins. Rotavirus is known to express six nonstructural and six structural proteins. Among them, NSP4 is the enterotoxin, known to disrupt cellular Ca(2+) homeostasis by translocating to endoplasmic reticulum. In this study, we have observed translocation of NSP4 to mitochondria...
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