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mutant of the late endosomes, they may not be involved in the infection pathway of LV-SVGmu. It is generally believed that late endosomes subsequently progress to lysosomes where viruses are degraded by proteases and hydrolases. Thus, the subpopulation of SVGmu viruses trafficking though the late endosomes may further undergo degradation in lysosomes. It has been reported that enveloped viruses respond to the pH drop in the acidic endosomal environment by undergoing conformational changes that lead to fusion. 9400011 For example, SFV has been known to fuse after arriving at the early endosomes, while influenza viruses are thought to be trafficked to the late endosomes where fusion occurs. By tracking the fusion events of double-labeled LV-SVGmu viruses at various time points, we observed that most viruses undergo fusion at 20 min of incubation at 37uC, which also happens to be the peak time of colocalization of the 23696131 early endosomal marker with viruses. This correlation suggests that the majority of LV-SVGmu fusion occurs in the early endosomes, a finding further confirmed by the reduced transduction of viruses in cells expressing the negative mutant form of Rab5. Although many viruses require a low-pH environment to trigger their conformational change for fusion, it has been reported that the pH thresholds that trigger viral membrane fusion are different for different viruses, which is generally determined by viral glycoproteins. For example, influenza viruses require a very low pH endosomal environment to trigger viral fusion, while Sindbis virus and SFV are known to have a relatively higher pH threshold for viral fusion , which also supports our observation of LV-SVGmu fusion in the early endosomes. In addition to fusion and endosomal escape, the degradation pathway of viruses is also a governing factor in the viral infectious process. Autophagy has been considered as a main pathway of viral degradation by fusing with lysosomes, subsequently maturing into autolysosomes, in which viruses are degraded. For instance, it was shown that depletion of several autophagy proteins increased VSV infection. Interestingly, many investigators have made inroads in exploring the multifunction of autophagy in the HIV-1 production process. Although autophagy is primarily considered to act as a degradative process, increasing evidence in HIV-1 reveals that it can assist in viral biosynthesis by promoting productive Gag processing in the early stages and preventing the degradative process in the later stages through the interaction of Nef with Beclin-1. Our results showed that autophagy plays an anti-viral role during LV-SVGmu transduction. By colocalization study using autophagy and lysosome markers and viral trafficking study using autophagy inducer and inhibitor, we demonstrated that the autophagy-lysosome network was involved in the degradative process of LV-SVGmu during infection. This study demonstrates that autophagy activity could lower the transduction efficiency of DC-directed LVs, which, in turn, could lower the efficacy of vaccine delivery. It has been shown that MedChemExpress IMR 1 autophagosomes may also trigger unwanted antivector immunity, which could negatively impact the desired vaccine-specific immunity. Thus, in conjunction with the vector-based platform described in the present study, it is important to consider the strategy to reduce autophage activity. Indeed, several autophagy inhibitors, such as 3-methyladenine and chloroquine, have been employed to inhibit