TWiV 516: HUSH little virus, don't you transcribe
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Lonya and Jeremy take the TWiV team\\xa0beTWIXt primate immunodeficiency virus proteins Vpx and Vpr and how they counteract transcriptional repression of proviruses by the HUSH complex.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Rich Condit,\\xa0Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guests: Leonid Yorkovetskiy and Jeremy Luban
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Links for this episode
- Pan American Society for Clinical Virology San Diego and Houston Regional Meetings
- Vpr and Vpx counter HUSH (Nat Micro)
- Vpr and Vpx counter HUSH (bioRxiv version)
- Schematic of HUSH complex (Lehner lab)
- Olive colobus monkey sound credit
- Image credit:\\xa0William (Ted) Diehl
- Letters read on TWiV 516
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Jeremy - Pictorial Guide to Living Primates; All The World\'s Primates
Lonya-\\xa0Chougui et al. HIV-2/SIV Vpx counters HUSH
Vincent\\xa0- Research!America
Intro music is by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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