TWiV reviews the appearance of poliovirus in Europe, mystery disease in DRC, global burden of Chikungunya, viruses of parasitic nematodes that induce antibody responses in vertebrate hosts, and picobirnaviruses, do they infect eukaryotes or prokaryotes?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey
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- ASV 2025 8:12
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- Poliovirus in Europe (WHO) 9:20
- DRC mystery disease (Reuters) 12:58
- Global burden of chikungunya (BMJ Global Health) 15:48
- RNA viruses of parasitic nematodes (Nat Micro) 21:53
- Picobirnaviruses encode bacterial lysins (PNAS) 1:00:18, 1:08:20
- Prokaryotic ribosome binding site in picobirnavirus genome (Current Opinion in Virology) 1:03:08
- Letters read on TWiV 1175 1:34:19
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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TWiV 236
10:00 email from Eckard Wimmer (see paper #1)
12:00 recoding amino acids by other nucleotides attenuates polio in mice
13:00 recoding (de-) optimization based on codon pairs
15:40 Alan thinks it takes longer to replicate
24:50 Palese said :
general live virus vaccines are host range mutants.
Just reducing replication doesn’t make good vaccines.
Also one wouldn’t like to have HA-deficient vaccine strains for a flu vaccine.
You want as much HA as possible.
26:30 2nd paper
39:50 3rd paper
48:30 emails,letters
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