Cell Entry by Non-Enveloped Viruses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Johnson, John E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 343
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Virology.; Biomedicine.

Non enveloped viruses constitute an important class of medically significant pathogens. They encode their proteins in single (ss) and double strand (ds) RNA and DNA genomes and display a variety of sizes and structures. In this volume experts in the field provide up to date descriptions of many char...

Table of Contents:

• Flock House Virus: A Model System for Understanding Non-Enveloped Virus Entry and Membrane Penetration
• The Caliciviruses
• Picornaviruses
• From Touchdown to Transcription: The Reovirus Cell Entry Pathway
• Rotavirus Cell Entry
• Structures and Functions of Parvovirus Capsids and the Process of Cell Infection
• Cellular Entry of Polyomaviruses
• Adenovirus.