TWiV 326: Giving HIV a flat tyr
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The sternutating TWiVers discuss preventing infection of cells and animals by a soluble CD4-CCR5 molecule that binds to HIV-1 virus particles.
Links for this episode
Dif-tor heh smusma (NY Times)
Immunization preterm premature infants (Thanks, Johnye!)
HIV and SHIV protection conferred by eCD4-Ig (Nature)
Tyrosine sulfation (Wikipedia)
GBV-C and Ebolavirus infection (J Virol)
Letters read on TWiV 326
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