Viruses and Cellular Metabolism 2023
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2024) | Viewed by 12801
Special Issue Editors
2. Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, 69434 Lyon, France
Interests: viral hepatitis; metabolism; chronic liver disease; liver cancer
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Interests: hepatitis virus; SARS-CoV-2; influenza virus; metabolomics; polyamines; antiviral agents
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The regulation of metabolic pathways is tightly linked to cell growth and differentiation. A wide spectrum of pathologies is associated with the disturbance of specific metabolic pathways and changes in the intracellular pools of the respective metabolites. These pathologies include cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, endocrine disorders, and non-bacterial infections. Cell metabolism is also closely linked to the production and scavenging of reactive oxygen species (ROS), as ROS control redox-dependent transcription factors and the expression of many metabolic enzymes; however, the interplay between viral infections with the metabolism of a host cell has overall been explored to a far lesser extent. Nevertheless, there are data that show that both DNA and RNA viruses interfere with central carbon metabolism as well as the biosynthesis and degradation of amino acids, lipids, and biogenic polyamines. Finally, markers of changes in metabolic and redox systems correlate with the development of some virus-associated diseases.
In this Special Issue we would like to bring together original research papers, short communications, and review articles on the interplay between viral infections with metabolic and redox pathways in infected cells, tissues, and organisms. Specifically, we seek papers that focus on the following:
- Changes in cell metabolism that occur in viral infections.
- Interplay between viruses and redox pathways.
- Role of cellular metabolites in the replication of viruses.
- Altered metabolism and redox status as triggers of virus-induced pathogenesis.
- Metabolites as biomarkers for virus-associated diseases.
- Inhibitors of metabolic enzymes as antivirals.
- Modulation of cytopathic/oncolytic activity of viruses by targeting cell metabolism.
- Technical perspectives for virologists working in the fields of metabolomics and redox biology.
Dr. Birke Bartosch
Dr. Alexander Ivanov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RNA viruses
- DNA viruses
- metabolomics
- redox biology
- pathogenesis
- carcinogenesis
- inflammation
- fibrosis
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