Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Paul Bieniasz
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Links for this episode
- ASM Grant Writing Online Course 7:00
- Bieniasz Laboratory 4:40
- Julius S. Youngner, 96 8:15
- Distinguished virology career of Julius S. Youngner (TWiV 373) 8:30
- Reconstitution of a human ERV (PLoS Path) 49:30
- Co-option of ERV envelope for host defense (eLife) 33:35
- Letters read on TWiV 439 10:15
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Paul – Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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