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. 2021 Oct 29;9:764516. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.764516

TABLE 1.

Mechanical forces regulate viral infection and transmission.

Type of virus Intracellular and extracellular mechanical forces Major cellular components/processes References
Murine leukemia virus (MLV) Actin filaments regulated retraction force Virus surfing for entry Lehmann et al. (2005)
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) Actin filaments regulated retraction force Virus surfing for entry Salameh (2012)
Rhabdovirus (RV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Providing force for clathrin-mediated endocytosis Guo et al. (2019)
Adenovirus (AdV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Actin and dynein providing forces for clathrin-mediated endocytosis; integrin as a receptor of the virus; Coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor binding to the virus to facilitate its entry Meier and Greber (2004)
Lyle and McCormick (2010)
Walters et al. (2002)
Kaposi’s sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Providing force for clathrin-mediated endocytosis, macropinocytosis, and trafficking Greene and Gao (2009)
Torriani et al. (2019)
Simian virus 40 (SV40) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Providing force for caveolae-mediated endocytosis Pelkmans and Helenius (2002)
Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Providing force to promote membrane fission Wang et al. (2020a)
Measles virus (MV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Actin filaments generating forces for the formation of viral buds; adherent junction protein nectin-4 as a receptor for the virus Bohn et al. (1986)
Mühlebach et al. (2011)
Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV) Actin filaments regulated contractile force Actin filaments rearrangement through the FAK-participated pathway to facilitate infection Lv et al. (2018)
Retrovirus (RV) Actin filaments regulated protrusive force Providing protrusive forces to initiate assembly Gladnikoff et al. (2009)
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Actin filaments regulated bending force Providing bending force to expel viral particles from the plasma membrane Ng et al. (2004)
West Nile virus (WNV) Microtubules regulated contractile force; Actin filaments regulated contractile force Microtubules providing force for clathrin-mediated endocytosis; Actin filaments providing force to expel viral particles to the extracellular environment; Integrin as a putative receptor of the virus Chu et al. (2006)
Chu et al. (2003)
Bogachek et al. (2010)
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) Cytoskeleton regulated mechanical force Cytoskeleton rearrangement and dynamic changes leading to extensive cell mechanic changes and affecting viral replication; caveolin-1 binding to HIV Env protein and blocking viral fusion and reduced virus replication Spear et al. (2014)
Wang et al. (2010)
Influenza virus (IAV) Actin and microtubule motors regulated contractile force; Shear stress; Tensile or compressive forces Dynactin, dynein, and myosin II generating forces to help to break apart viral capsids; FAK being hijacked to promote viral replication and inhibited from activating innate immune responses; Maintaining reconstructed structural unit on a chip Banerjee et al. (2014)
Bergmann and Elbahesh (2019)
Zhang et al. (2021)
Coxsackievirus B1 (CVB1) Shear stress; Tensile or compressive forces Maintaining reconstructed structural unit on a chip and CVB1 polarized infection Villenave et al. (2017)
Rhinovirus (HRV) Shear stress; Tensile or compressive forces Maintaining reconstructed structural unit on a chip Benam et al. (2016)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) Shear stress; Tensile or compressive forces Maintaining reconstructed structural unit on a chip and achieving HBV infection in vitro Kang et al. (2015), Kang et al. (2017)
Ortega-Prieto et al. (2018), Ortega-Prieto et al. (2019)
Pseudorabies virus (PRV) Shear stress; Tensile or compressive forces Maintaining reconstructed structural unit on a chip Wang et al. (2019b)