Enveloped and Non-Enveloped Virus Assembly
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 39
Special Issue Editor
Interests: superresolution imaging; single molecule imaging approaches; human immunodeficiency virus-1; lentiviruses; virus assembly; host-virus interactions
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Dear Colleagues,
The tools for studying virus assembly are rapidly evolving, unlocking critical perspectives on the mechanistic basis of this elaborate and preprogrammed event. Virus assembly studies, however, are challenged by the multitude of virus and host interfaces that temporally progress to construct a new infectious virion. Despite being a critical stage of the infection cycle, virus assembly remains a poorly drugged target. This is due in part to our still early understanding of these processes as well as the difficulty of perturbing large and often complex host and viral molecular interfaces. In this Special Issue, we welcome submissions from novel studies presenting insights into the assembly mechanisms of enveloped and non-enveloped viruses. Studies presenting new methodologies for visualizing virus assembly, studies of virus egress mechanisms, approaches to perturbing assembly, and studies identifying host cell factors required for assembly are encouraged but not limited to these subtopics.
Dr. Schuyler van Engelenburg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- virus assembly
- viral host factors
- virus methodology
- virus egress
- membrane remodeling
- cellular imaging
- virus budding and release
- protein-protein interactions
- genome packaging
- viral capsid
- assembly inhibitors
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