The length of vesicular stomatitis virus particles dictates a need for actin assembly during clathrin-dependent endocytosis.
Microbial pathogens exploit the clathrin endocytic machinery to enter host cells.Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), an enveloped virus with bullet-shaped virions that measure 70 x 200 nm, enters cells by clathrin-dependent endocytosis.We showed previously that VSV particles exceed the capacity of typical clathrin-coated vesicles and instead enter th