Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

The membrane associated accessory protein is an adeno-associated viral egress factor

  • Zachary C. Elmore,
  • L. Patrick Havlik,
  • Daniel K. Oh,
  • Leif Anderson,
  • George Daaboul,
  • Garth W. Devlin,
  • Heather A. Vincent,
  • Aravind Asokan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26485-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Adeno-associated viruses can be secreted in a pre-lytic manner as free or extracellular vesicle (EV)-associated particles. Here, Elmore et al. show that the recently identified membrane-associated accessory protein (MAAP) functions as an AAV egress factor via association to EVs.