lmmol · Proteins

Envelope glycoprotein E

Also known as: gE

Function

In epithelial cells, the heterodimer gE/gI is required for the cell-to-cell spread of the virus, by sorting nascent virions to cell junctions. Once the virus reaches the cell junctions, virus particles can spread to adjacent cells extremely rapidly through interactions with cellular receptors that accumulate at these junctions. Implicated in basolateral spread in polarized cells (By similarity). In neuronal cells, gE/gI is essential for the anterograde spread of the infection throughout the host nervous system. Together with US9, the heterodimer gE/gI is involved in the sorting and transport of viral structural components toward axon tips.

Classification

Family (Pfam)
PF02480 Herpes_gE, PF20418 Herpes_gE_N
InterPro
Herpes_gE_N, Herpes_glycopE_Fc, Ig-like_dom_sf, Ig-like_fold
Functional cluster
Secreted Growth Factors & Cytokines

Experimental structures · PDB · 2

A predicted model is available from AlphaFold.

Gene Ontology · 7

Drugs targeting this protein · 1

Related proteins · sequence + function similarity

Co-cited proteins · studied together in the literature

Literature · 10 cited papers

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