TWiV 393: Lovers and livers

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVerati revisit possible sexual transmission of Zika virus, and reveal how a cell protein that allows hepatitis C virus replication in cell culture enhances vitamin E mediated protection against lipid peroxidation.

 

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Links for this episode

• Late sexual transmission of Zika virus (Lancet)
• Zika virus disease in US (CDC)
• Zika virus lab accident (ABC News)
• Mosquito eradication (virology blog)
• Florida mosquito control (TWiV 111)
• How tequila mosquito (TWiV 178)
• SEC14L2 allows HCV replication in cell culture (Nature)
• Lipid peroxidation (Wikipedia)
• HCV replicase regulated by lipid peroxidation (Nat Med)
• Letters read on TWiV 393

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