Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how a secreted protein from the protozoan parasite Theileria transforms its host cells via a cellular proto-oncogene.
Download TWiP #88 (82 MB .mp3, 114 minutes).
Links for this episode:
- Leishmania (TWiP #14)
- Transformation by a prolyl isomerase (Nature)
- Theileria.org
- Prolyl isomerase (Wikipedia)
- Image from Transformation & Oncogenesis
- Letters read on TWiP 88
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