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TWiV 516: HUSH little virus, don’t you transcribe

  • October 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: chromatin, hiv, human immunodeficiency virus, HUSH complex, LINE-1, promoter, proteasome, provirus, siv, transcriptional repression, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Vpr, Vpx

Lonya and Jeremy take the TWiV team beTWIXt primate immunodeficiency virus proteins Vpx and Vpr and how they counteract transcriptional repression of proviruses by the HUSH complex.

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TWiV 430: The persistence of herpesvirus

  • February 26, 2017
  • Tagged as: chromatin, herpes simplex virus, immune escape, interferon, latency, methyl-phospho switch, persistence, sexual transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Zika virus
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The TWiX cabal discuss sexual transmission of Zika virus in mice, and how immune escape enables herpes simplex virus escape from latency

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TWiV 369: Camel runny noses and other JNK

  • December 27, 2015
  • Tagged as: camel, chromatin, coronavirus, herpes simplex virus, herpesvirus, histone, immunity, JNK, MERS, MERS-CoV, methyl/phospho switch, methylation, neuronal stress, phosphorylation, reactivation, shedding, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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A swarm of virologists discusses testing of a MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels, and how a neuronal stress pathway reactivates herpes simplex virus.

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