Coxsackievirus A16 utilizes cell surface heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans as its attachment receptor
Open Access
- 15 January 2017
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Emerging Microbes & Infections
- Vol. 6 (1) , 1-7
Abstract
Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) is one of the major pathogens responsible for hand, foot and mouth disease, which affects more than two million children in the Asian-Pacific region annually. Previous studies have shown that scavenger receptor B2 is a functional receptor for CVA16 that facilitates the uncoating process. However, it remains unclear whether other receptors are required for efficient CVA16 infection. In this study, by using a variety of assays we demonstrated that CVA16 utilizes surface heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans as its attachment receptor. We further showed that five surface-exposed positively charged residues located in a cluster at the five-fold vertex of the virion are critical to heparan sulfate binding and cellular attachment of CVA16. Among the five residues, the arginine at position 166 (R166) of VP1 capsid protein appeared to be the most important for the interaction between CVA16 and heparan sulfate. Alanine substitution at this site (R166A) almost completely abolished heparan su...Keywords
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