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TWiV 462: Splicing RNA with Phillip A. Sharp

  • October 8, 2017
  • Tagged as: exon, intervening sequence, intron, lariat, Phillip A. Sharp, rna splicing, spliceosome, split genes, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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Vincent speaks with 1993 Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp about his career and his seminal discovery of RNA splicing in mammalian cells, which changed our understanding of gene structure.

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TWiV 339: Herpes and the sashimi plot

  • May 31, 2015
  • Tagged as: cancer, Chikungunya virus, exon, herpesvirus, host shutoff, intron, IRF7, Lassa fever, mosquitoes, splicing, transcription termination, translation, viral, virology, virus, west nile virus

Tre TWiV amici present three snippets and a side of sashimi: how herpesvirus inhibits host cell gene expression by disrupting transcription termination.

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