This Week in Virology #97: California virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Peter Sarnow, and Bert Semler

On episode #97 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent visited Peter Sarnow and Bert Semler during a trip to California, and spoke with them about their work on internal ribosome entry, and the requirement for a cellular microRNA for hepatitis C virus replication.

Download TWiV #97 (66 MB .mp3, 91 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Eukaryotic mRNAs that might contain an IRES (PNAS)


• Modulation of HCV RNA abundance by a liver-specific microRNA (Science)


• Viral small RNAs (PLoS Pathogens)


• Bridging IRES elements to the translation apparatus (Biochim Biophys Acta)


• A nucleo-cytoplasmic SR protein functions in viral IRES mediated translation (EMBO J)


• Nuclear vs cytoplasmic routes to IRES mediated translation (Trends in Microbiology)


• Letter read on TWiV 97

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