Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team reviews identification of the cell receptor for hepatitis B and D viruses, and the cell enzyme that cleaves the genome-linked protein from picornaviral RNA.
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- HBV and HDV cell receptor (eLIFE)
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This will be a great listen.
Awesome, you guys reviewed my paper! The hunt for VPg unlinkase sure taught me a thing or two about protein biochemistry. Lol
Nice work! And be sure to listen to the follow up email on TWiV 211.
Hi! I am trying to find if you ever talked about initiation of translation in viruses. But you have a bunch of material
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-238-lost-in-translation/