TWiV 512: Flexuous SUMO wrestlers
Anne Simon joins the TWiV team to talk about plant viruses, including plum pox virus that devastates nut and stone fruit trees, and a geminivirus protein that regulates viral DNA synthesis.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit,\xa0Brianne Barker, and Anne Simon
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Links for this episode- Support Viruses Gordon Conference3:38
- Potyvirus (ViralZone)
- Plum pox (Wikipedia)
- History, biology, management of plum pox (Mich St Ext)
- Papaya ring spot virus (Bus Man)
- Geminivirus (ViralZone)
- Geminivirus rep impairs PCNA SUMOylation (J Virol)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 512
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Brianne\xa0- \xa0Why are so many genes unstudied? (Zimmerand Yong)
Alan\xa0- Unveiling the RNA World
Rich\xa0- Spaghetti mystery solved\xa0(PNAS paper)
Dickson\xa0- Science Fair
Vincent\xa0- A PhD Lab Coat Ceremony
Stephen\xa0- Flu vaccine myth rant by Crislip
Jolene\xa0- Research Matters in\xa0PLoS Path and PLoS Biology
Nicholas\xa0- Charity Matters app
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
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