Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Acid ceramidase of macrophages traps herpes simplex virus in multivesicular bodies and protects from severe disease

  • Judith Lang,
  • Patrick Bohn,
  • Hilal Bhat,
  • Holger Jastrow,
  • Bernd Walkenfort,
  • Feyza Cansiz,
  • Julian Fink,
  • Michael Bauer,
  • Dominik Olszewski,
  • Ana Ramos-Nascimento,
  • Vikas Duhan,
  • Sarah-Kim Friedrich,
  • Katrin Anne Becker,
  • Adalbert Krawczyk,
  • Michael J. Edwards,
  • Andreas Burchert,
  • Magdalena Huber,
  • Justa Friebus-Kardash,
  • Joachim R. Göthert,
  • Cornelia Hardt,
  • Hans Christian Probst,
  • Fabian Schumacher,
  • Karl Köhrer,
  • Burkhard Kleuser,
  • Eduard B. Babiychuk,
  • Beate Sodeik,
  • Jürgen Seibel,
  • Urs F. Greber,
  • Philipp A. Lang,
  • Erich Gulbins,
  • Karl S. Lang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15072-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Macrophages are critical in limiting replication of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Here the authors show how acid ceramidase and its enzymatic product sphingosine enable multivesicular bodies to function as an anti-viral mechanism.