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TWiV 440: I hardly noumeavirus

  • May 7, 2017
  • Tagged as: bootstrap, evolution, giant virus, marseillevirus, mimivirus, mRNA synthesis, Noumeavirus, nucleus, polyA, transcription, Vaccines, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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No problem not being nice to Dickson in this episode, because he’s absent for a discussion of a new giant virus that replicates in the cytoplasm yet transiently accesses the nucleus to bootstrap infection.

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TWiV 216: Processing VIRALGUUAACACCAGRNA

  • January 20, 2013
  • Tagged as: GpppG, hnRNA, lariat, methylation, mRNA cap, nuclear export, polyA, rna splicing, transesterification, undecanucleotide, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy resume the virology 101 series with a discussion of RNA capping, splicing, and export.

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TWiV 162: Transcription

  • December 18, 2011
  • Tagged as: cap, dna dependent rna synthesis, nucleic acid, pol I, pol II, pol III, polyA, polymerase, rna splicing, transcription, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.

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