The TWiVers present mitoviruses, which infect mitochondria, and how quasi-enveloped hepatitis A virus gets naked again.
The TWiV team discuss the use of quantum dots to study uncoating of influenza virus in real time, and induction of endothelial dysfunction by flavivirus NS1 proteins in a tissue-specific manner.
TWiV 534: Portal to the METTL
- February 10, 2019
- Tagged as: calicivirus, cryoEM, cytomegalovirus, endocytosis, HCMV, herpesvirus, IFN, isg, m6A methylation, methyl eraser, methyl reader, methyl writer, METTL, mRNA stability, portal, receptor, uncoating, viral, virology, virus, viruses
The TWiV crew reveal a unique portal on the calcivirus capsid formed upon receptor engagement, and the regulation of interferon responses in virus-infected cells by methylation of mRNA.
The TWiVerati follow up on the Ebola virus outbreak, virulence of Ebola-Makona, and reveal how a parasitoid is revealed to hyperparasitoids, and binding of influenza virus to a calcium ion channel to mediate influenza virus entry.
The TWiV ninjas reveal that bacteriophage particles rapidly move across monolayers of eukaryotic cells from different tissues.
TWiV 409: A Nef is enough
- October 2, 2016
- Tagged as: AIDS, endocytosis, hiv, Nef, restriction factor, SERINC, siv, viral, virion, virology, virus, viruses
Jeremy joins the TWiVeroids to tell the amazing story of how the function of the HIV-1 protein called Nef was discovered and found to promote infection by excluding the host protein SERINC from virus particles.
Vincent and Dick continue virology 101 with a discussion of virus entry into cells, then answer reader email on colony collapse disorder and viruses that confer a benefit to their host.