Luftig R B, Lupo L D
Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112-1393.
Trends Microbiol. 1994 May;2(5):178-82. doi: 10.1016/0966-842x(94)90669-6.
A surprisingly large number of animal viruses interact with cytoskeletal elements inside infected cells at different stages of replication. For example, a viral protease is activated during assembly of murine leukemia viruses at the cell surface, which causes both the morphological conversion of 'immature' to 'mature' particles and a drastic reduction of the actin stress fiber network.
