Marburg virus articles from across Nature Portfolio

The authors show pro-inflammatory responses are needed for Marburg virus control in its natural bat reservoir, and that if reduced, humanlike disease and shedding results, suggesting that natural immunomodulatory stressors may increase spillover risk.

Host factors involved in filovirus infection are incompletely understood. Here, the authors used a haploid cell screening system to unveil CCZ1’s crucial role in regulating endosomal trafficking thus virus movement within cells and thereby impacting Marburg and Ebola infection.

Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. Here, the authors determine the structure of Marburg virus nucleoprotein–RNA complex by cryo-electron microscopy and provide mechanistic insight into the helical assembly of the nucleocapsid.

Filoviruses such as Ebola virus pose a substantial health risk to humans. Advances in genomic technologies have enabled the rapid, large-scale generation of virus sequence data at the location of disease outbreaks and thus the use of reverse functional genomics to swiftly characterize the threat of, and treatment for, filovirus disease.

The recent large outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Western Africa resulted in greatly increased accumulation of human genotypic, phenotypic and clinical data, and improved our understanding of the spectrum of clinical manifestations. As a result, the WHO disease classification of EVD underwent major revision.

Three new studies now reveal the crystal structure of the Marburg virus protein VP24 and provide insights into its role in pathogenesis.