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TWiV 412: WO, open the borders and rig the infection

24 October 2016 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiVome reveal the first eukaryotic genes found in a bacteriophage of Wolbachia, and how DNA tumor virus oncogenes antagonize sensing of cytoplasmic DNA by the cell.

You can find TWiV #412 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: adenovirus, bacteriophage, black widow spider toxin gene, cGAS, DNA sensing, DNA tumor virus, horizontal gene transfer, interferon, oncogene, p53, papillomavirus, polyomavirus, Rb, STING, viral, virology, virus, viruses, WO, wolbachia

TWiV 360: From Southeastern Michigan

25 October 2015 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #360 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent visits the University of Michigan where he and Kathy speak with Michael, Adam, and Akira about polyomaviruses, virus evolution, and virus assembly, on the occasion of naming the department of Microbiology & Immunology a Milestones in Microbiology site.

You can find TWiV #360 at www.microbe.tv/twiv. Or you can watch the video below.

Filed Under: Basic virology, Information, This Week in Virology Tagged With: Adam Lauring, Akira Ono, BK virus, error threshold, evolution, gain of function, GOF, HIV-1, michael imperiale, mutation, nsabb, polyomavirus, quasispecies, retrovirus, Southeastern Michigan, swarm, University of Michigan, viral, virology, virus, virus assembly

TWiV 290: Baylor goes viral

22 June 2014 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #290 of the science show This Week  in Virology, Vincent meets up with Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd at Baylor College of Medicine to talk about their work on polyomaviruses and virus induced stress.

You can find TWiV #290 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cancer, coxsackievirus, mesothelioma, P bodies, picornavirus, poliovirus, polyomavirus, stress granules, SV40, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

15 September 2013 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #250 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Robert Garcea talked about polyomaviruses. This episode was recorded at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, Colorado.

You can find TWiV #250 at www.microbe.tv/twiv, or view the video below.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: BK, icaac, JC, Ki, Merkel cell, polyomavirus, SV40, t antigen, viral, virology, virus, Wu

TWiV 214: This is your brain on polyomavirus

6 January 2013 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #214 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss how coagulation factor X binding to adenovirus activates the innate immune system, and a novel polyomavirus associated with brain tumors in raccoons.

You can find TWiV #214 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: adenovirus, chemokine, coagulation factor, cytokine, factor X, gene therapy, innate immunity, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, polyomavirus, sarcoma, TLR4, tumor, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 160: Moore tumor viruses

4 December 2011 by Vincent Racaniello

merkel carcinomaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore

The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.

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Links for this episode:

  • Chang-Moore laboratory at University of Pittsburgh
  • Representational difference analysis (Science)
  • KSHV: Forgotten but not gone (Blood)
  • Why do viruses cause cancer? (Nat Rev Cancer)
  • Merkel cell carcinoma review (Ann Rev)
  • Clonal integration of a polyomavirus in Merkel carcinoma (Science)
  • T antigen mutations in Merkel polyomavirus (PNAS)
  • Merkel polyomavirus small t is an oncoprotein (J Clin Inves)
  • Suggest a topic for the 2012 ASM General Meeting
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  • Letters read on TWiV 160

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