TWiV 409: A Nef is enough

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

Guest: Jeremy Luban

Jeremy joins the TWiVeroids to tell the amazing story of how the function of the HIV-1 protein called Nef was discovered and found to promote infection by excluding the host protein SERINC from virus particles.

 

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Links for this episode

• No recovery in PACE trial (virology blog)
• The real PACE data (virology blog)
• Contagious Thinking
• Florida DOH daily Zika update
• Congress does not fail on Zika (NPR)
• Nef history (Luban lab)
• Nef excludes SERINC from virions (Nature)
• SERINC counters Nef (Nature)
• ASM Grant Writing Online Course
• Letters read on TWiV 409

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