TWiV 353: STING and the antiviral police
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.
Links for this episode
28 years of poliovirus shedding (PLoS Path)
NOT a rare poliovirus (Wash Post)
Ukraine polio outbreak (ProMedMail)
Virus particle transfer of cGAMP (Science one, two)
cGAS on TWiV 222
Image credit
Letters read on TWiV 353
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