Primary envelopment of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus at the nucleoplasmic reticulum.

ABSTRACT: Herpesvirus egress begins with primary envelopment of newly assembled capsids at the inner nuclear membrane (INM). Primary envelopment has been observed at the peripheral INM as well as nuclear infoldings. Nuclear infoldings from invaginations of the INM are Type-I nucleoplasmic reticulum (NR), whereas infoldings of both INM and outer nuclear membrane (ONM) are Type-II NR. Here, we report that Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) reactivation from latency and lytic cycle progression correlates with increases in both types of NR, but primary envelopment is restricted to peripheral INM and Type-I NR. These Type-I NR structures co-localized with puncta containing CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CCTα), the enzyme that catalyzes the rate-limiting step in phosphatidylcholine (

SUBMITTER: Wilson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12548478 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature