TWiV 439: The purloined envelope

This Week in Virology

Apr 30, 2017•2 hr 2 min

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Episode description

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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Bieniasz Laboratory
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Distinguished virology career of Julius S. Youngner (TWiV 373)
Reconstitution of a human ERV (PNAS)
Co-option of ERV envelope for host defense (eLife)
Letters read on TWiV 439

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