Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review two papers that present evidence for RNA interference as an antiviral immunity mechanism in mammals.
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Links for this episode
- World Polio Day
- Mole Day
- John Holland’s publications
- RNAi is antiviral in mammals (Science)
- Antiviral RNA interference in mammals (Science)
- RNAi, antiviral after all (Science)
- Is RNA interference antiviral in mammals? (Cell Host Microbe)
- Nodamura virus (Nature)
- Ebolavirus proteins suppress RNAi (J Virol)
- Illustrated is an siRNA (orange), dicer (top right), and argonaute (bottom)
- Letters read on TWiV 256
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” RNA interference as an antiviral immunity mechanism in mammals”….. How could such a topic attracts no comments………. Good to see the work on air ’cause I’m not just slipping behind on Twiv but e-alerts too……… 😉
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Doris
Dec 20, 2013