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TWiV 465: Theodora the explorer

29 October 2017 by Vincent Racaniello

Theodora Hatziioannou joins the TWiV team to discuss a macaque model for AIDS, and how a cell protein that blocks HIV-1 infection interacts with double-stranded RNA.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: AIDS, animal model, APOBEC3H, CRNA, deamination, dsRNA, HIV-1, pigtail macaque, restriction factor, viral, virology, virus, viruses, X-ray structure

TWiV 464: Boston baked viruses

22 October 2017 by Vincent Racaniello

At Tufts University Dental School in Boston, Vincent speaks with Katya Heldwein and Sean Whelan about their careers and their work on herpesvirus structure and replication of vesicular stomatitis virus.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: glycoprotein, herpes simplex virus, infectious DNA clone, negative strand virus, RNA dependent RNA polymerase, tegument, vesicular stomatitis virus, viral, virology, virus, virus egress, virus entry, viruses, X-ray structure

TWiV 394: Cards in a hand

19 June 2016 by Vincent Racaniello

Vincent and Alan speak with Erica Ollmann Saphire about her career and her work on understanding the functions of proteins of Ebolaviruses, Marburg virus, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, at ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston, MA.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cryoEM, ebolavirus, filovirus, marburg virus, protein, protein structure, structural biology, viral, virology, virus, viruses, X-ray structure

TWiV 330: A swinging gate

29 March 2015 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #330 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVers explain how a protein platform assists the hepatitis C virus RNA polymerase to begin the task of making viral genomes.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cfs/me, cytokines, de novo initiation, hepatitis C virus, primer dependent, primer independent, protein priming platform, RNA dependent RNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, viral, virology, virus, X-ray structure

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