TWiV 426: I’m Axl, and I’ll be your cervid today
- January 29, 2017
- Tagged as: AXL, cervid, chronic wasting disease, Gas6, innate immunity, interferon, PMCA, prion, protein misfolding, SOCS-1, viral, virology, virus, virus entry, virus receptor, viruses, Zika virus
The sages of TWiV explain how chronic wasting disease of cervids could be caused by spontaneous misfolding of prion protein, and the role of the membrane protein Axl in Zika virus entry into cells.