Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Chemical proteomics tracks virus entry and uncovers NCAM1 as Zika virus receptor

  • Mayank Srivastava,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Jian Chen,
  • Devika Sirohi,
  • Andrew Miller,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Zhilu Chen,
  • Haojie Lu,
  • Jianqing Xu,
  • Richard J. Kuhn,
  • W. Andy Tao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17638-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The mechanism underlying the cellular entry of Zika virus is not fully understood. Here, the authors use a chemically modified virus and time-resolved proteomics to capture interacting host proteins during virus entry and identify NCAM1 as a ZIKV receptor.