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Journal Article
Beyond Free Virions: Interconnected Secretory Pathways and Reticulon 3 (RTN3) Coordinate Extracellular Vesicle Diversity for Infectious Exosome Generation
2026
Overview
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) can disseminate replication-competent viral genomes complexed with selected host proteins, enabling stealth cell-to-cell transfer within lipid membrane-enclosed bubbles. In addition to complementing free-virion spread, EV-associated genomes can be protected from neutralizing antibodies and persist under conditions in which classical virion production decreases. Here, we propose a route-resolved framework in which interconnected cellular secretory pathways, including endoplasmic reticulum (ER) remodeling, multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis, secretory autophagy, and plasma-membrane budding, jointly generate EV heterogeneity and create discrete opportunities for the capture, protection, and export of infectious cargo. We highlight reticulon-3 (RTN3), an ER-shaping protein, as an upstream regulator that can couple infection-induced ER microdomains to endosomal docking and to autophagy-linked trafficking decisions that bias intermediates toward secretion rather than degradation. Supporting this view, transmission electron microscopy of dengue virus-infected cells reveals extensive vesicular remodeling, including irregular MVBs adjacent to the plasma membrane and autophagosome-like double-membrane structures, consistent with altered vesicular routing following RTN3 perturbation. Collectively, these route-resolved, spatially organized spatio-organelle changes support a pathomechanistic model in which RTN3-mediated ER remodeling reshapes ER-endosome-autophagy trafficking interfaces, creating regulated decision points that can be leveraged to stratify infectious EV subsets (with infectivity-linked single-vesicle and quantitative proteomics approaches) and to inform host-directed strategies that curb non-lytic viral dissemination.
