Occludin stalls HCV particle dynamics apart from hepatocyte tight junctions, promoting virion internalization.
Maika S DeffieuCamille M H ClémentCristina M DorobantuEmma PartiotYonis BareOrestis FaklarisBenjamin RivièreNilda Vanesa Ayala-NunezThomas F BaumertPhilippe RondéYves MélyVincent LucanskyRaphaël GaudinPublished in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (2022)
Together, our data provide robust evidence that HCV particles interact with OCLN away from TJs and shed mechanistic insights regarding the manipulation of transmembrane receptor localization by extracellular virus particles.