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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