TWiV 1301: Lost in giant virus translation

TWiV reviews lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus seroprevalence among urban pregnant women and newborns in Philadelphia, and a functional translation initiation complex encoded in the genome of giant viruses that drives synthesis of viral structural proteins.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Angela Mingarelli

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Links for this episode

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
• LCMV seroprevalence among pregnant women (Emerg Inf Dis)
• Giant viruses encode functional vIF4F (Cell)
• Ribosomal proteins encoded in viral genomes (virology blog)
• Letters read on TWiV 1301
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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