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TWiV 472: The riddle of the skinks

  • December 17, 2017
  • Tagged as: endogenous retrovirus, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, exaptation, Mabuya lizard, membrane, membrane fusion, mutant, placenta, poxvirus, poxvirus crescent, retrovirus, syncytin, syncytiotrophoblast, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiV team reveal the origin of the poxvirus membrane, and how a retrovirus drove the development of the placenta of a lizard.

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TWiV 439: The purloined envelope

  • April 30, 2017
  • Tagged as: endogenous retrovirus, envelope protein, erv, exaptation, gammareterovirus, HERV-T, hominid, MCT-1, Paul Bieniasz, retrovirus, viral, viral receptor, virology, virus, viruses
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Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.

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TWiV 367: Two sides to a Coyne

  • December 13, 2015
  • Tagged as: archaea, CACO, capsid, Cas4, coxsackievirus, crispr, enterovirus, evolution, exaptation, organoid, polarized epithelial cell, poliovirus, three dimensional cell culture, viral, virology, virus, viruses
TWiV 367

Two Coynes join the TWiV overlords to explain their three-dimensional culture model of polarized intestinal cells for studying enterovirus infection.

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